Background
Richards, Alfred Newton was born on March 22, 1876 in Stamford, New York, United States. Son of Review Leonard E. and Mary E. (Burbank) Richards.
Richards, Alfred Newton was born on March 22, 1876 in Stamford, New York, United States. Son of Review Leonard E. and Mary E. (Burbank) Richards.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1897, Master of Arts, 1899. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia, 1901. Honorary Doctor of Science, University Pennsylvania, 1925, Western Reserve University, 1931, Yale, 1933, Harvard, 1940, Columbia, 1942.
Williams College, 1943, Princeton, 1940.
New York University, 1955, Rockefeller Institute, 1960, University of Oxford, 1960. Honorary Doctor of Medicine, University Pennsylvania, 1932, U. Louvain, 1949.
Doctor of Laws, University Edinburgh (Scotland), 1935. Johns Hopkins, 1949.
He served as chairman of the School of Medicine"s department of pharmacology from 1910 to 1946 and was the university"s vice-president of medical affairs from 1939 to 1948. In 1941 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed Richards chairman of the Committee on Medical Research. After this office was terminated in 1946, Richards became president of the National Academy of Sciences, serving until 1950.
In 1948, President Harry Truman appointed Richards to the Medical Affairs Task Force of the Commission on the Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government.
Richards also became a director of Merck & Company, for which he had consulted since 1931, and an associate trustee of the in 1948. The Richards Medical Research Laboratories building at the, one of the best-known and most influential designs of architect Louis Kahn, is named for him.
Abraham Flexner Award of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Member Committee on Federal Medical services Hoover Commision on Organisation Executive Branch Government, May-December 1948. Member science staff British Medical Research Committee, London, 1917-1918. Member National Academy Sciences (president 1947-1950), Association American Physicians, American Philosophical Society, (vice president 1944-1947), American Physiological Society, Wistar Association, British Physiological Society (honorary), American Society Biological Chemists, American Pharmacol.
Society, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, Harvey Society, Physiological Society Philadelphia, Philadelphia County Medical Society (honorary).
Interurban Clinical; Club (honorary), Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha, Phi Beta Kappa (honorary), correspondent. Member Gesellsch. der Aertze in Wien.
Member American Urological Society, Royal Society Medicine (London). Member Royal Society, London, Royal Danish, Academy Science, Royal Society Edinburgh.
Member British Medical Association.
Clubs: Century (New York).
Married Lillian L. Woody, December 26, 1908.