Kendall

[ ken-dl ]

noun
  1. Edward Calvin, 1886–1972, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1950.

  2. a male given name.

Words Nearby Kendall

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024

How to use Kendall in a sentence

British Dictionary definitions for Kendall

Kendall

/ (ˈkɛndəl) /


noun
  1. 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

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012