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Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr.
1915Nov, 19

Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr.

Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (November 19, 1915 – March 9, 1974) was an American pharmacologist and biochemist born in Burlingame, Kansas. Sutherland won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1971 "for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones", especially epinephrine, via second messengers, namely cyclic adenosine monophosphate, or cyclic AMP.

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Events on 1915

  • 12Jan

    Women's suffrage

    The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote.
  • 28Jan

    United States Coast Guard

    An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
  • 18Mar

    Battle of Gallipoli

    World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
  • 9May

    Second Battle of Artois

    World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
  • 17May

    Herbert Henry Asquith

    The last British Liberal Party government (led by Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.