
Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr.
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Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (November 19, 1915 – March 9, 1974) was an American pharmacologist and biochemist born in Burlingame, Kansas. Sutherland won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1971 "for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones", especially epinephrine, via second messengers, namely cyclic adenosine monophosphate, or cyclic AMP.
Career
- 1915Born
- 1966Member of National Academy of Sciences
- 1969Won Canada Gairdner International Award
- 1970Won Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
- 1971Won Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1971Won Dickson Prize in Medicine
- 1973Won National Medal of Science
- 1974Passed away
- Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science
Trivia
- •Place of birth: Burlingame
- •Citizenship: United States
- •Known as: physiologist, chemist, biochemist, physician