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Edward Calvin Kendall

1972 - 1972

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Edward Calvin Kendall (March 8, 1886 – May 4, 1972) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Calvin Kendall has received more than 110,715 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Edward Calvin Kendall is the 369th most popular chemist (up from 395th in 2019), the 3,220th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,209th in 2019) and the 71st most popular American Chemist.

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  • 53

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  • 22.23

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  • 2.03

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Edward Calvin Kendall ranks 369 out of 602. Before him are Paul Ulrich Villard, Fritz London, Friedrich Konrad Beilstein, Karl Ernst Claus, Brunó Ferenc Straub, and Alexander William Williamson. After him are Hugo Erdmann, Kazimierz Fajans, Peter Waage, Morten P. Meldal, Auguste Laurent, and Koichi Tanaka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Edward Calvin Kendall ranks 52. Before him are Octavia Spencer, Toni Collette, Dita Von Teese, Leymah Gbowee, Carmen Electra, and Josh Duhamel. After him are Giovane Élber, Sofia Helin, Sung Kang, Karel Poborský, Omayra Sánchez, and Liam Gallagher. Among people deceased in 1972, Edward Calvin Kendall ranks 93. Before him are Fulbert Youlou, Joseph Paul-Boncour, Richard Courant, James F. Byrnes, Ángel Romano, and Pierre Brasseur. After him are Ivan Yefremov, Dan Blocker, Prince William of Gloucester, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, Violette Leduc, and Walter Jackson Freeman II.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edward Calvin Kendall ranks 3,220 out of 20,380. Before him are Kevin A. Lynch (1918), Christian Slater (1969), Sherm Clark (1899), Eric Hoffer (1898), Lois McMaster Bujold (1949), and Douglas Diamond (1953). After him are Joseph Valachi (1904), Edith Head (1897), Jennifer Rush (1960), M. Emmet Walsh (1935), Ciara (1985), and Herb Ritts (1952).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Edward Calvin Kendall ranks 71. Before him are Alice Ball (1892), William E. Moerner (1953), Louis E. Brus (1943), Frances Arnold (1956), Roger Y. Tsien (1952), and Roderick MacKinnon (1956). After him are Allen J. Bard (1933), Albert Ghiorso (1915), Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1847), George Washington Carver (1864), Jennifer Doudna (1964), and John Tukey (1915).

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