The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1971
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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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