Edward Calvin Kendall:
Edward Calvin Kendall was an American chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
March 8, 1886 in South Norwalk, Connecticut
Death:
May 4, 1972 in Princeton, New Jersey
Claim to Fame:
Kendal was an American chemist who discovered the hormone cortisone. He also shares the 1950 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Tadeus Reichstein and Philip Hench for their research on the structure and effects of adrenal cortex hormones.