# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-calvin-kendall
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:07:32.459Z

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name: "Edward Calvin Kendall"
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description: "Edward Calvin Kendall was an American biochemist. In 1950, Kendall 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 glands. Kendall not only researched the adrenal glands, he also isolated thyroxine, a hormone of the thyroid gland and worked with the team that crystallized glutathione and identified its chemical structure."
tagline: "American chemist (1886-1972)"
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birthDate: "1886-03-08"
deathDate: "1972-05-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump