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Werner Theodor Otto Forßmann (Forssmann in English; German pronunciation: [ˈvɛʁnɐ ˈfɔʁsˌman] ⓘ; 29 August 1904 – 1 June 1979) was a German researcher and physician from Germany who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine (with Andre Frederic Cournand and Dickinson W. Richards) for developing a procedure that allowed cardiac ...
Werner Forssmann was a German surgeon who shared with André F. Cournand and Dickinson W. Richards the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1956. A pioneer in heart research, Forssmann contributed to the development of cardiac catheterization, a procedure in which a tube is inserted into a vein.
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Werner Forssmann: A Pioneer of Interventional Cardiology and Auto-Experimentation. On August 29, 1904, Werner Theodor Otto Forssmann was born in Berlin, the only child of a lawyer. His father, who encouraged a broad education and emphasized traditional Prussian values such as duty and honesty, was killed in 1914 on the Eastern Front (World War I).
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May 18, 2018 · Werner Theodor Otto Forssmann was born in Berlin, Germany on August 29, 1904 to Julius and Emmy (Hindenberg) Forssmann. His father, a barrister, served as a captain in the army during World War I, where he was killed in 1916. Forssmann's education began at the Askanische Gymnasium, a secondary grammar school in Berlin.
Sep 21, 2021 · Werner Theodor Otto Forssmann was born in Berlin on August 29th, 1904, the only child of a lawyer and a housewife. His family name ‘Forssmann’ comes from his paternal Swedish family in the Swedish part of Finland. Born at the start of the 20th century, the lifestyle and patriotism of the German empire formed the background of his early childhood.
Mar 1, 1997 · Abstract. Werner Forssmann, AndréF. Cournand, and Dickinson W. Richards were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1956 for seminal work on heart catheterization, Forssmann for his pioneering self-experiment, and Cournand and Richards for establishing heart catheterization as a standard diagnostic and treatment procedure in cardiology.
Jan 30, 2015 · That man was a young German Doctor named Werner Forssmann, just 25 years old, who came up with this crazy idea. And at that bar, he started boasting about it. ROB DUNN: And the idea was...
