Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. 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. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1971, announced October 14, 1971. Earl W. Sutherland, Jr., “for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones”. Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.: born 1915, Burlingame, KS, USA. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).