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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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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1956 was awarded jointly to André Frédéric Cournand, Werner Forssmann and Dickinson W. Richards "for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system"
Forssmann was aware of studies in which horses and other animals had undergone intra-arterial catheterization in order to measure cardiac pressures. He envisioned human catheterization both for diagnostic purposes and to facilitate drug administration.
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In 1956, as a pioneer of interventional cardiology, Werner Forssmann shared the Nobel Prize with André Frédéric Cournand and Dickinson W. Richard. Forssmann's family was in difficult financial straits at the time and the Nobel Prize was an unexpected windfall.
Mar 1, 2020 · Learn about the courageous and pioneering work of Werner Forssmann, who inserted a catheter into his own heart in 1929 and paved the way for cardiac catheterization. Read how he faced opposition, criticism and imprisonment, but also recognition and collaboration with Cournand and Richards, who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize with him.
