Earlier this month, Case Western Reserve University hosted several Nobel Prize winners for The Standard Model at 50 Years symposium. Did you know there are 16 Nobel Prize winners who are affiliated with Case Western Reserve? In recognition of their contributions to their respective fields, we will highlight CWRU’s Nobel Prize winners throughout June.
Of all of the subjects Case Western Reserve University Nobel Laureates have been honored in, physiology or medicine is the most frequent. Seven individuals affiliated with Case Western Reserve University have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or medicine throughout history. This week, we will highlight the first four. Check back next week to learn about the three most recent winners in physiology or medicine.
John J. R. Macleod won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1923. Prior to receiving the Nobel Prize, Macleod was a chair and professor of physiology at the Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine as the co-discoverer of insulin.
In 1954, Frederick C. Robbins won the Nobel Prize “for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue.” Robbins came to Western Reserve University in 1952 as a professor of pediatrics. He was appointed dean of the School of Medicine in 1966.
Earl W. Sutherland Jr. was professor and chair of pharmacology at Western Reserve University from 1953 to 1963. In 1971, he won the Nobel Prize “for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones.”
George H. Hitchings won the Nobel Prize in 1988. The award recognized he and his colleagues “for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment.” Hitchings was a faculty member at Western Reserve University’s Department of Biochemistry from 1939 to 1942.