Title:

Professor of Biochemistry

Affiliation:

University of Miami

Miami,Florida  USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

1974

Award Discipline:

Biological Sciences

Award Year:

1973

Citation:

"For the discovery that epinephrine and hormones of the pituitary gland occasion their diverse regulatory effects by initiating cellular synthesis of cyclic adenylic acid, now recognized as a universal biological second messenger, which opened a new level of understanding of the subtle mechanisms that integrate the chemical life of the cell while offering hope of entirely new approaches to chemotherapy."

Presented by President Nixon at a White House Ceremony on October 10, 1973.

Nobel Laureate:

Physiology or Medicine, 1971