Edward Calvin Kendall masanin kimiyyar halittu ne dan kasar Amurka wanda aka haife shi a ranar 8 ga Maris, 1886, kuma ya rasu a ranar 4 ga Mayu, 1972. An fi saninsa da aikinsa na kebewa da kuma nazarin kwayoyin hormones daban-daban, ciki har da thyroxine da cortisone. Kendall ya sami lambar yabo ta Nobel a fannin Physiology ko Medicine a shekara ta 1950, tare da Philip S. Hench da Tadeusz Reichstein, saboda aikin da suka yi akan hormones na glandar adrenal, wanda ya haifar da haɓakar cortisone a matsayin magani ga nau'ikan magunguna daban-daban. yanayi.