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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 73,294 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Dickinson W. Richards is the 227th most popular physician (down from 205th in 2019), the 1,868th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,681st in 2019) and the 25th most popular American Physician.

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  • 57.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Dickinson W. Richards ranks 227 out of 502Before him are James Black, Soranus of Ephesus, Leander of Seville, Hasdai ibn Shaprut, Henry Heimlich, and Zhang Zhongjing. After him are James Lind, Edward Bach, Thomas Hodgkin, Carl Værnet, Mehriban Aliyeva, and Jack Kevorkian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Dickinson W. Richards ranks 85Before him are Clara Haskil, Paul Muni, Henry de Montherlant, Dino Grandi, Archduke Wilhelm of Austria, and Princess Margaret of Denmark. After him are Archduke Maximilian Eugen of Austria, Sheng Shicai, Matthew Ridgway, Alexander Orlov, Lewis Mumford, and Kurt Schumacher. Among people deceased in 1973, Dickinson W. Richards ranks 66Before him are Mikhail Kalatozov, Veronica Lake, Edward Steichen, Mary Wigman, Adolf Strauss, and Asger Jorn. After him are Jacques Lipchitz, Károly Kerényi, Milunka Savić, Alexander Orlov, Robert Ryan, and Roger Williamson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dickinson W. Richards ranks 1,868 out of 18,182Before him are Michael Biehn (1956), Gene Vincent (1935), Charles W. Morris (1903), John Densmore (1944), Dusty Hill (1949), and Helen Hayes (1900). After him are Kelly Preston (1962), Yaphet Kotto (1939), Jack Vance (1916), Jaclyn Smith (1945), Ward Cunningham (1949), and Michael Phelps (1985).

Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Dickinson W. Richards ranks 25Before him are Joseph Erlanger (1874), Michael Stuart Brown (1941), Anthony Fauci (1940), Patch Adams (1945), George Whipple (1878), and Henry Heimlich (1920). After him are Jack Kevorkian (1928), John O'Keefe (1939), Robert Lefkowitz (1943), Peter Agre (1949), John Harvey Kellogg (1852), and Harvey Cushing (1869).