Edward Calvin (1886—1972), American biochemist. He isolated crystalline thyroxine from the thyroid gland, and from the adrenal cortex he obtained a number of steroid hormones, one of which was later named cortisone. Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1950).
肯德尔,爱德华·卡尔文(1886—1972,美国生物化学家,他从甲状腺中分离出甲状腺素;从肾上腺皮质中取得多种类固醇荷尔蒙,其中一种后被命名为可的松;1950年获诺贝尔生理学或医学奖)。