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Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (November 19, 1915 – March 9, 1974) was an American pharmacologist and biochemist born in Burlingame, Kansas.
Earl W. Sutherland, Jr. was an American pharmacologist and physiologist who was awarded the 1971 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for isolating cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cyclic AMP) and demonstrating its involvement in numerous metabolic processes that occur in animals.
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Earl Sutherland investigated how hormones, especially adrenaline, work. He showed how signals from one cell to another are conveyed by a messenger—the hormone—and how signals within the cell are then conveyed by another messenger.
Biographical. Born: Burlingame, Kansas, November 19, 1915. Married: 1963. Children: 2 sons, 2 daughters. Education. B.S. Washburn College, 1937. M.D. Washington University, School of Medicine 1942, St. Louis. Professional Experience. Interneship, Barnes Hospital, 1942.
Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr. (1915-1974) was a pioneering American pharmacologist and physiologist who, together with colleague Theodore W. Rall, isolated cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cyclic AMP) in 1956.
Oct 21, 2005 · Sutherland's discovery and chemical characterization of the cAMP intermediate or “second messenger” was of crucial importance for understanding the mechanism of action of epinephrine and of many other hormones.
Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (November 19, 1915 – March 9, 1974) was an American pharmacologist and biochemist born in Burlingame, Kansas.
