Dickinson Woodruff Richards

Dickinson Woodruff Richards (born Oct. 30, 1895, Orange, N.J., U.S.—died Feb. 23, 1973, Lakeville, Conn.) was an American physiologist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1956 with Werner Forssmann and André F. Cournand. Cournand and Richards adapted Forssmann’s technique of using a flexible tube (catheter), conducted from an elbow vein to the heart, as a probe to investigate the heart. Richards received an A.B. degree from Yale University in 1917 and...