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Kendall

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Ken·dall  (kndl)
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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Noun1.Kendall - United States biochemist who discovered cortisone (1886-1972)Kendall - United States biochemist who discovered cortisone (1886-1972)
Edward Calvin Kendall, Edward Kendall
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