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| | TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Research & Reward -- Nov. 06, 1950 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20) |
 | | Thus, in 1936, two biochemists, Edward Kendall of Rochester, Minn, and Polish-born Tadeus Reichstein of Basel, Switzerland, independently reported that among the secretions of the adrenal glands they had found a complex hormone. |
 | | Meanwhile, Reichstein ran the number of hormones and similar substances found in the adrenal glands to 28, and Kendall kept trying to synthesize compound E, or something like it. |
 | | Edward Calvin Kendall, Philip Showalter Hench and Tadeus Reichstein were awarded the 1950 Nobel Prize for medicine. |
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