Edward Calvin. 1886–1972, US biochemist, who isolated the hormone thyroxine (1916). He shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1950) with Phillip Hench and Tadeus Reichstein for their work on hormones
Kendall in American English
(ˈkɛndəl)
city on the SE coast of Fla.: suburb of Miami: pop. 75,000