Earl Wilbur Sutherland
Earl Wilbur Sutherland junior (born November 19, 1915 in Burlingame , Kansas , † March 9, 1974 in Miami , Florida ) was an American physiologist and Nobel Prize winner . Sutherland discovered cyclic adenosine monophosphate in 1957 . He did essential work on hormones .
life and work
Sutherland studied medicine at Washburn College in Topeka with a bachelor's degree in 1937. He financed his studies by working in a hospital. He continued his medical studies at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where he was a student of Carl Ferdinand Cori and received his MD in 1942 . Under Nobel Laureate Cori, he worked at the Department of Pharmacology and Biochemistry on the role of adrenaline and glucagon in the breakdown of glycogen. He completed his internship at the University's Barnes Hospital. During the Second World War he was a military doctor and then again at Washington University in Cori's group. In 1945/46 he was an instructor in pharmacology and from 1946 to 1950 in biochemistry. In 1950 he became Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, 1952 Associate Professor and 1953 Professor of Pharmacology at Case Western Reserve University . This is where his collaboration with Theodore W. Rall and his research on cAMP began . In 1963 he became professor of physiology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville. In 1973 he gave up his professorship.
In 1966 Sutherland was elected to the National Academy of Sciences , 1969 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1969 he received the Banting Medal from the American Diabetes Association and a Gairdner Foundation International Award, and in 1971 the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research . Also in 1971 Sutherland was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for his discoveries about the mechanisms of action of hormones”.
literature
- Earl W. Sutherland , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 29/1974 of July 8, 1974, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- Gisela Baumgart: Sutherland, Earl Wilbur. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1368 f.
Web links
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 1971 award to Earl Wilbur Sutherland
- Literature by and about Earl Wilbur Sutherland in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Dr Earl W. Sutherland, Jr, In: de.findagrave.com
- Earl W. Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist, In: britannica.com (English)
- Sutherland Earl W. (1915–1974), In: universalis.fr (French)
- Earl W. Sutherland Jr., In: tennesseeencyclopedia.net (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter S. (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed March 10, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sutherland, Earl Wilbur |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sutherland, Earl Wilbur junior (full name); Sutherland, Earl W. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Burlingame , Kansas |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 9, 1974 |
| Place of death | Miami , Florida |