Before
1970, we knew little about how hormones
work. Since then, a revolution has taken place. As evidence
of this, more than one quarter of all Nobel Prizes for Physiology
and Medicine, from 1970 to 1998, have been awarded to scientists
whose work revealed some aspect of hormone action at the molecular
level. Progress in this area has been fueled by extensive support
from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Martin Rodbell
is just one of these Nobel laureates. A sampling of the others
is below. Also listed are the Institutes of the NIH that provided
support for at least a portion of each investigator's work.
1971 For the first description of the way
hormones work at the molecular level.