Dickinson W. Richards

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1895 – 1973

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Who was Dickinson W. Richards?

Dickinson Woodruff Richards, Jr. was an American physician and physiologist. He was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 with André Cournand and Werner Forssmann for the development of cardiac catheterization and the characterisation of a number of cardiac diseases.

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Born
Oct 30, 1895
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Also known as
  • Dickinson Richards
  • Dr. Dickinson W. Richards
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Yale University
  • Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
  • Columbia University
Died
Feb 23, 1973
Lakeville

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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