Alfred Newton Richards

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Name Alfred Richards Education Columbia University		Notable awards Royal Society

Born March 22, 1876Stamford, New York, US ( 1876-03-22 ) Died March 24, 1966, Bryn Mawr, Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, United States Awards Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award, Linnean Medal

No Thermal Break, No Problem: Upgrading Kahn’s Stainless Steel Windows in the Richards Building

Alfred Newton Richards (March 22, 1876 – March 24, 1966) was an American pharmacologist.

Career

Richards was born in Stamford, New York. He served as chairman of the University of Pennsylvania 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 & Co., for which he had consulted since 1931, and an associate trustee of the University of Pennsylvania in 1948.

The Richards Medical Research Laboratories building at the University of Pennsylvania, one of the best-known and most influential designs of architect Louis Kahn, is named for him.