Birth · 30 October 1895

Birth of Dickinson W. Richards

Dickinson Woodruff Richards Jr. was born on 30 October 1895 in Orange, New Jersey. An American physician and physiologist, he shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on cardiac catheterisation and the circulation.

Photograph of a historical electrocardiograph and two operators, London, 1922. — Electrocardiograph at the National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart, London, 1922. Contextual archive photograph.
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October 30 — On This Day in Medical History
LITFL · Historical date : 1895-10-30

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