Dickinson W. Richards
Appearance
Dickinson W. Richards | |
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Born | Dickinson Woodruff Richards, Jr. October 30, 1895[1] |
Died | February 23, 1973 Lakeville, Connecticut, U.S. | (aged 77)
Nationality | American |
Known for | Cardiac catheterization |
Scientific career | |
Fields | medicine physiology |
Institutions | Columbia University Bellevue Hospital Presbyterian Hospital |
Dickinson Woodruff Richards, Jr. (October 30, 1895 – February 23, 1973) was an American physician and physiologist.
He is best known for the research he did on the development of cardiac catheterization as well as the characterization of a number of cardiac diseases.[1]
Awards and recognition
[change | change source]He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 "for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system". He shared the prize with André Cournand and Werner Forssmann.[1]
He died in Lakeville, Connecticut on February 23, 1973.[2]
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Categories:
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winners
- 1895 births
- 1973 deaths
- American military personnel of World War I
- American Nobel Prize winners
- American physicians
- Columbia University alumni
- Jewish American academics
- Jewish American scientists
- Jewish Nobel Prize winners
- American physiologists
- Scientists from New Jersey
- Yale University alumni
- Educators from New Jersey