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Dickinson W. Richards

1895 - 1973

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Dickinson Woodruff Richards Jr. (October 30, 1895 – February 23, 1973) was an American physician and physiologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dickinson W. Richards has received more than 78,401 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia. Dickinson W. Richards is the 126th most popular physician (up from 227th in 2019), the 935th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,867th in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Physician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 78k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.09

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 19.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Dickinson W. Richards ranks 126 out of 726. Before him are Franz Joseph Gall, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, John Eccles, Ragnar Granit, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, and Johannes Peter Müller. After him are Eduard Bloch, Nicolaes Tulp, John Snow, Edgar Adrian, Oswald Avery, and George Emil Palade.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Dickinson W. Richards ranks 55. Before him are Jürgen Stroop, Richard Walther Darré, Dorothea Lange, Albert Göring, Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia, and Lewis Milestone. After him are Pavel Sukhoi, Hans-Georg von Friedeburg, Lázaro Cárdenas, Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Kurt Zeitzler, and Vasily Blokhin. Among people deceased in 1973, Dickinson W. Richards ranks 45. Before him are Jean-Pierre Melville, Amílcar Cabral, François Cevert, Taha Hussein, A. S. Neill, and Lex Barker. After him are Ingeborg Bachmann, W. H. Auden, Edward G. Robinson, Elsa Schiaparelli, Frances Marion, and Frank Costello.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dickinson W. Richards ranks 935 out of 20,380. Before him are Steve Martin (1945), Barbara Bush (1925), Ben Bernanke (1953), Anne Baxter (1923), Keith Jarrett (1945), and Edward Norton (1969). After him are Jody Williams (1950), Harry Dean Stanton (1926), Kenneth Arrow (1921), Edgar Cayce (1877), Estée Lauder (1906), and Kobe Bryant (1978).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Dickinson W. Richards ranks 12. Before him are George Minot (1885), Haldan Keffer Hartline (1903), William T. G. Morton (1819), Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916), Jonas Salk (1914), and Francis Peyton Rous (1879). After him are Joseph Erlanger (1874), Harvey J. Alter (1935), E. Donnall Thomas (1920), George H. Hitchings (1905), George Whipple (1878), and Robin Cook (1940).

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