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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1971
Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.

Earl W. Sutherland, Jr. - Facts

Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.

Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.

Born: 19 November 1915, Burlingame, KS, USA

Died: 9 March 1974, Miami, FL, USA

Affiliation at the time of the award: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

Prize motivation: "for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones"

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