RICHARD BING: 12 OCTOBER 1909 · 8 NOVEMBER 2010

• Published in: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Vol. 158; no. 3; pp. 287 - 291
• Main Author: Vogt, Peter K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 01.09.2014; University of Pennsylvania Press
• Subjects: Bing; BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS; Blood flow; Cardiac Catheterization - history; Cardiac Catheterization - instrumentation; Cardiac Catheterization - methods; Cardiology; Cardiology - history; Carrel, Alexis; Collaboration; Defects; Europe; Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790); Heart; History of medicine and histology; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Hopkins, Richard; Intubation; Laboratories; Lindbergh, Charles A (1902-74); Medical imaging; Medicine; Metabolism; Music; Physiology; Science; Studies; United States; United States; Europe; New York; United States > US

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