a battalion surgeon under General George S. Patton, and was later sent to Germany, where he served as a staff physician in a military hospital until 1945. He had two sons and a daughter with Mildred Rice. In 1962, Sutherland divorced his first wife. A year later, when he became professor of physiology at Vanderbilt University, Sutherland married Dr. Claudia Sebeste Smith, the assistant dean at the university, and they were together for the remainder of Sutherland's life. Awards and achievements 1937 – Bachelor of Science from Washburn College in Topeka, Kansas; 1942 – Doctor of medicine from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri; 1969 – Torald Sollman Award in Pharmacology | Gairdner Foundation International Award; 1970 – Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research; 1971 – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Achievement Award from the American Heart Association; 1971 – Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement; 1973 – National Medal of Science awarded by Richard Nixon. In 1952, Sutherland was awarded the Banting Memorial Lectureship and, in 1953, was elected as the Chairman of the Case Western Reserve University Department of Pharmacology in Cleveland, Ohio. He was awarded the Career Investigator position at the American Heart Association in 1967 and was elected as member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1973. Sutherland was also a member of various scientific societies which included the American Society of Biological Chemists, the American Chemical Society, the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Sigma Xi. From 1951 to 1956, Sutherland was a member of the editorial board for the Biochemical Preparations Journal. The editorial board of the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics sought is attention from 1957 to 1958. Death On March 9, 1974, Sutherland died of internal bleeding due to surgical complications after suffering a massive esophageal hemorrhage. He was 58 years old. Legacy After Sutherland's death, in 1974, the University of Miami's Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine established the Sutherland Memorial Lecture. In 1976, Vanderbilt University created the Sutherland Prize which is awarded annually to a faculty member whose work has garnered them national, if not international, acclaim and respect. Recipients are awarded $5,000, and their name is engraved on a silver bowl. Vanderbilt honored Sutherland in 1997 by starting a Sutherland lecture, and again in 2001 in the creation