Dickinson W. Richards's Birth Card: The 5 of Hearts

In the record

Dickinson Woodruff Richards Jr. (October 30, 1895 – February 23, 1973) was an American physician and physiologist. The birth-card coordinate for October 30 is the 5 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1956 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1956 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system

The 5 of Hearts coordinate

Dickinson W. Richards's birthday maps to the 5 of Hearts (The Restless Heart). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Dickinson W. Richards. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You let love change shape without using motion as a way out of being seen.

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Dickinson W. Richards in the public record

He was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 with André Cournand and Werner Forssmann for the development of cardiac catheterization and the characterisation of a number of cardiac diseases. Richards was born in Orange, New Jersey. He was educated at the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut, and entered Yale University in 1913. At Yale he studied English and Greek, graduating in 1917 as a member of the senior society Scroll and Key. He joined the United States Army in 1917, and became an artillery instructor. He served from 1918 to 1919 as an artillery officer in France. When he returned to the United States, Richards attended Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, graduating with an M.A. in 1922 and his M.D. degree in 1923. He was on the staff of the Presbyterian Hospital in New York until 1927, when he went to England to work at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, under Sir Henry Dale, on the control of circulation in the liver.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Dickinson W. Richards (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 3 of Spades

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

Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: physician. This line comes from the Venus position of the 5♥'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. In 1928, Richards returned to the Presbyterian Hospital and began his research on pulmonary and circulatory physiology, working under Professor Lawrence Henderson of Harvard.
2. He began collaborations with André Cournand at Bellevue Hospital, New York, working on pulmonary function.
3. Initially their research focussed on methods to study pulmonary function in patients with pulmonary disease.
4. Their next area of research was the development of a technique for catheterization of the heart.

Other laureates with this card

• Daniel Nathans — 1978 Physiology or Medicine
• Edward C. Prescott — 2004 Economic Sciences
• Gerhard Domagk — 1939 Physiology or Medicine
• José Ramos-Horta — 1996 Peace
• Leland Hartwell — 2001 Physiology or Medicine
• Ragnar Granit — 1967 Physiology or Medicine
• Russell A. Hulse — 1993 Physics
• Sir Norman Angell — 1933 Peace
• Theodor W. Hänsch — 2005 Physics

FAQ

What is Dickinson W. Richards's birth card?

The 5 of Hearts. October 30 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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