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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.
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.
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.
May 18, 2018 · Few people would go to the extreme of using their own body to prove a point, but that is exactly what Dr. Werner Forssmann (1904-1979) did when he experimented on himself to prove that a catheter could be introduced into a human heart without resulting in damage or death to the patient.
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.
Mar 1, 1997 · Forssmann's self-experiment pushed the boundaries of medicine into a new era and opened the door of modern cardiology. This historical study depicts Forssmann's life narrative and the forces, political and personal as well, that shaped his personality.
