Edward Kendall

EDWARD KENDALL d1972. American chemist. In 1950, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine along with Swiss chemist Tadeusz Reichstein and Mayo Clinic physician Philip S Hench, for their work with the hormones of the adrenal gland. He did not only focus on the adrenal glands, he was also responsible for the isolation of thyroxine, a hormone of the thyroid gland and worked with the team that crystallized glutathione and identified its chemical structure. He died in New Jersey aged 86 on May 4th 1972