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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.