1895–1973 American physician who shared the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1956. He is most famous for introducing cardiac catheterization.
Keywords: heart; lungs; cardiac catheterization; cardiopulmonary
Richards, Dickinson Woodruff
Alfred P Fishman, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, USA
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002464
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Figure 1. Dickinson Woodruff Richards (1895–1973).
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| Further Reading | |
| Richards DW (1957) Right Heart Catheterization. Its Contributions to Physiology and Medicine. Science 125: 1181–185. | |
| Richards DW (1962) Medical Priesthoods, Past and Present (Presidential Address). Transactions of the Association of American Physicians 75: 1–10. | |
| Richards DW (1968) Hippocrates of Ostia. JAMA 204: 1049–1056. | |
| Cournand A (1974) Dickinson Woodruff Richards: 1895–1973. A Survey of His Contributions to the Physiology and Pathophysiology of Respiration in Man. American Journal of Medicine 57: 312–319. | |
| book Cournand AF (1986) From Roots To Late Budding. New York: Gardner Press. | |
| book Current Biography Yearbook (1957), pp. 457–459. New York: HW Wilson. | |
| book National Cyclopedia of American Biography (1960) vol. 1, pp.336–337. New York: JT White. | |
| book Fishman AP and Richards DW (1964) Circulation of the Blood. Men and Ideas. New York: Oxford University Press. Reprinted in 1988 by American Physiological Society, Bethesda, MD. | |
