Ken·dall (k n dl) A community of southeast Florida, a suburb of Miami. Population: 75,200. |
| Kendall, Edward Calvin 1886-1972. American biochemist. He shared a 1950 Nobel Prize for discoveries concerning the hormones of the adrenal cortex. |
Kendall [ˈkɛndəl]
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(Biographies / Kendall, Edward Calvin (1886-1972) M, US, SCIENCE: chemist) Edward Calvin. 1886-1972, US biochemist, who isolated the hormone thyroxine (1916). He shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1950) with Phillip Hench and Tadeus Reichstein for their work on hormones
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| Noun | 1. |  Kendall - United States biochemist who discovered cortisone (1886-1972) |
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