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Edward Calvin Kendall

Edward Calvin Kendall (1886-1972) American chemist who, with Philip S. Hench and Tadeus Reichstein, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for research on the structure and biological effects of adrenal cortex hormones.

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