Stamp vignette on medical science: Edward C. Kendall--Nobel Laureate

Mayo Clinic Proceedings | December 1, 2001| | Copyright

In 1950, the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine was awarded to Drs Edward Calvin Kendall (1886-1972) and Philip Showalter Hench (1896-1965) for the discovery and clinical application of cortisone. They helped isolate, synthesize, and establish the clinical efficacy of the hormone. Kendall performed the chemical studies and Hench the clinical studies. They shared the prize with the Polish-Swiss chemist Tadeus Reichstein (1897-1996), who discovered cortisone independently of Kendall and Hench.

Kendall was born in South Norwalk, Conn (about 30 miles southwest of New Haven), on March 8, ...

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