Ricardo Rimini

Ricardo Rimini di Cave was a biomedical scientist who emigrated from Italy to Uruguay because of fascism. He authored with J. L. Duomarco the first study about intra-abdominal pressure in humans in 1947 and was the first to show clearly that the abdomen behaves as a fluid-filled container with a flexible anterior abdominal wall. He developed an apparatus for pleural washing and aspiration in 1948 and suggested that venous collapse is a hydrostatic analogy of a waterfall in 1954. In fencing, in addition to his Olympic appearance, he won a silver medal at the 1955 Pan American Games in team sabre.