Dickinson W. Richards

American physician, Nobel Prize recipient (1895-1973)

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Lived 1895–1973, aged 78United States
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    1895–1973
    Aged 78
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Updated 2026-06-18

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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