Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1971

Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1971 was awarded to Earl W. Sutherland, Jr. "for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones"

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