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The second youngest of six children, he was raised by his mother, Edith M. Hartshorn, and his father, Earl W. Sutherland. [1] Though his father, who was originally from Wisconsin , had attended Grinnell College for two years, he ultimately led an agrarian lifestyle that took him to both New Mexico and Oklahoma before settling down in Burlingame ...
Kids Encyclopedia Facts. 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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(1915–74). U.S. pharmacologist and physiologist Earl Sutherland was the recipient of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. He devoted his research to the study of hormones, leading to his discovery that they control body functions by regulating the level of a substance called cyclic AMP, which in turn controls the cellular activity ...
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. Assistant in Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Washington University 1940-42.
Signals between different parts of the body are conveyed by small electrical impulses and by chemical substances, hormones and signal substances. Communication also takes place between different cell parts. Earl Sutherland investigated how hormones, especially adrenaline, work.
Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr. (November 19, 1915 – March 9, 1974) was an American pharmacologist and biochemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1971 for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones. He was born in Burlingame, Kansas in 1915 and died in Miami, Florida, United States in 1974.
