Richard J. Bing was born on October 12, 1909 in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany. He was married to Mary Whipple. He died on November 8, 2010 in La Cañada Flintridge, California, USA.
Research cardiologist, composer, and author. His musical manuscripts are housed in the Bing collection at USC's Doheny Library.
In the 1960s, he researched with the physicist George W. Clark at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He founded the International Society for Heart Resarch in 1976 where he was appointed Life President. He co-founded the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology with Lionel H. Opie.
He moved his laboratory to the Huntington Medical Research Institutes in Pasadena, California.
He served as Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
(In 1951) For the first time, it will be possible to measure accurately the effect of various chemical compounds on the human heart muscle and to study the effects of new drugs.