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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1950

"for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects"
Edward Calvin Kendall Tadeus Reichstein Philip Showalter Hench
Edward Calvin Kendall Tadeus Reichstein Philip Showalter Hench
third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize
USA Switzerland USA
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN, USA		 Basel University
Basel, Switzerland		 Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN, USA
b. 1886
d. 1972		 b. 1897
(in Wloclawek, Poland)
d. 1996		 b. 1896
d. 1965
 
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