Edward Calvin Kendall (8 March 1886 – 4 May 1972) was an American chemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1950 with Philip S. Hench and Tadeusz Reichstein for their discoveries concerning hormones of the adrenal cortex.
He spent most of his career at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where he worked on the isolation and purification of hormones produced by the adrenal cortex, a small gland located on top of the kidneys.
He studied the hormones of the adrenal cortex in the 1930s, so he could use their extracts of them to help certain diseases. In collaboration with Hench, he discovered cortisone, an adrenal cortex hormone, had anti-inflammatory properties and could be used to treat rheumatoid arthritis.
He also discovered the hormone aldosterone, which regulates salt and water balance in the body.
He died on 4 May 1972 in Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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