Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1950
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Edward Calvin Kendall
Prize share: 1/3
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Tadeus Reichstein
Prize share: 1/3
Photo: Harris & Ewing. Nobel Foundation archive
Philip Showalter Hench
Prize share: 1/3
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1950 was awarded jointly to Edward Calvin Kendall, Tadeus Reichstein and Philip Showalter Hench "for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects"
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