of Cortisone As a Therapeutic Agent." As of the 2010 awards, Kendall and Hench were the only Nobel Laureates to be affiliated with Mayo Clinic. Kendall was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1950, and both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society in 1951. Kendall's career at Mayo ended in 1951, when he reached mandatory retirement age. He moved on to Princeton University, where he was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Biochemistry. He remained affiliated with Princeton until his death in 1972. In addition to the Nobel Prize, Kendall received other major awards including the Lasker Award, the Passano Foundation Award and the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh. Kendall received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1966. He was awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Cincinnati, Western Reserve University, Williams College, Yale University, Columbia University, National University of Ireland, and Gustavus Adolphus College. Family life Kendall married Rebecca Kennedy in 1915, and they had four children. He died in 1972 in Princeton, New Jersey. and his wife died in 1973. References External links Edward Calvin Kendall Biography 1886 births 1972 deaths 20th-century American chemists Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine American Nobel laureates Mayo Clinic people People from Norwalk, Connecticut Recipients of the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Members of the American Philosophical Society