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| 1. | Earl Wilbur, Jr., 1915–74, U.S. biochemist: Nobel prize for medicine 1971. |
| 2. | George, 1862–1942, U.S. politician and jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1922–38. |
| 3. | Dame Joan, born 1926, Australian soprano. |
| 4. | Also called Suth⋅er⋅land⋅shire [suhth-er-luhnd-sheer, -sher] . a historic county in N Scotland. |
Sutherland Suth·er·land (sŭ&phonth;'ər-lənd), Earl Wilbur, Jr. 1915-1974.
American physiologist. He won a 1971 Nobel Prize for showing that cyclic AMP within the cell is the agent that moderates the action of hormones.