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. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1950, announced October 26, 1950. Edward C. Kendall, Tadeus Reichstein, and Philip S. Hench, “for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects”. Edward C. Kendall: born 1886, South Norwalk, CT, USA. Tadeus Reichstein: born 1897, Wloclawek, Poland. Philip S. Hench: born 1896, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).