Richard Alan John Asher was a British endocrinologist and haematologist. As the senior physician responsible for the mental observation ward at the Central Middlesex Hospital he described and named Munchausen syndrome in a 1951 article in The Lancet.
- Occupation
- physician, internist, writer, endocrinologist
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- April 3, 1912
- Died
- April 25, 1969
