Loading Medicine Nobel Prize
Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Loading Medicine Nobel Prize
Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Medicine · 1971
Earl W. Sutherland, Jr. received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones. The award recognizes how this contribution changed the direction of its field. This achievement represents one of the major advances recognized in medicine at the time.