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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 Nobel Lecture . Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1956. The Role of Heart Catheterization and Angiocardiography in the Development of Modern Medicine. The ancient world and the Middle Ages had no idea of the existence of the circulation of the blood.
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.
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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.
Jan 30, 2015 · This piece states that Werner Forssmann was a medic during World War II. It would be more accurate to describe Forssmann as a medical officer. In 1939 he enlisted in the German armed forces.
