Who discovered cortisone?

Cortisone was discovered by American biochemist Edward Calvin Kendall in the late 1930s. He, along with his colleagues, isolated and identified this steroid hormone from the adrenal cortex. Kendall's work laid the foundation for the development of cortisone as a therapeutic agent, which was later popularized for its anti-inflammatory properties. For his contributions, Kendall shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1950.