Sutherland, Earl W., Jr.

Sutherland, Earl W., Jr.

▪ American pharmacologist
in full  Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr. 
born Nov. 19, 1915, Burlingame, Kan., U.S.
died March 9, 1974, Miami, Fla.

      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.

      Sutherland graduated from Washburn College (Topeka, Kansas) in 1937 and received his M.D. degree from Washington University Medical School (St. Louis, Missouri) in 1942. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, he joined the faculty of Washington University. In 1953 he became chairman of the department of pharmacology at Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve University) in Cleveland, Ohio, where in 1956 he discovered cyclic AMP. In 1963 Sutherland became a professor of physiology at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee), and from 1973 until his death he was a member of the faculty of the University of Miami Medical School.

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