Peter Agre vs Earl Sutherland

Peter Agre is an American physician-scientist who conducted his Nobel Prize-winning research at Johns Hopkins University. He shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Roderick MacKinnon for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes, specifically for the discovery of aquaporins. Agre identified aquaporin-1 as the protein responsible for selective water transport across cell membranes, s...

American pharmacologist and biochemist Earl W. Sutherland Jr. was awarded the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering cyclic AMP (cAMP) and establishing its role as a second messenger that mediates the intracellular action of hormones such as epinephrine and glucagon. He conducted much of this research at Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve University) in Clevel...