The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1971
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"