Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr.
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1915 – 1974
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Who was Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr.?
Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr. 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. Sutherland died on March 9, 1974 in Miami, Florida, at the age of 58.
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- Born
- Nov 19, 1915
Burlingame - Also known as
- Earl Wilbur Sutherland
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Washburn University
- Washington University School of Medicine
- Employment
- Vanderbilt University
- Case Western Reserve University
- Died
- Mar 9, 1974
Miami
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on July 23, 2013
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