The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1956
Co-Nobelists André F. Cournand, Werner Forssmann
Physician, gentle clinician, cardiovascular physiologist. "Discoveries concerning heart catheterization, pathological changes in circulatory system." Diagnosing congenital heart diseases; chronic cardiac, pulmonary diseases; traumatic shock.
"Man's potentiality, or these days his survival, will depend on his conscience, more specifically, ability of leaders and followers to change character, into more merciful beings."
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Dickardson W. Richards Find in a library near you. In Worldcat page, click book of interest to you. Scroll down to libraries which possess book. Possibly more than one person with same name
Name: Richards, Dickinson Woodruff Jr.
Birth: 30 October 1895, Orange, NJ, USA
Death: 23 February 1973, Lakeville, CT, USA
Institution: Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Award: "for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system"
Subject: cardiovascular physiology
Portion of Cash: 1/3
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M.S. Psychology at end of 3rd year of medical school. Mentor: Professor Ernest L. Scott, College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1922. Later mentors: Lawrence J. Henderson and Henry Hallet Dale, Medicine Nobilist 1936.