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André Frédéric Cournand (September 24, 1895 – February 19, 1988) was a French-American physician and physiologist . Biography. Cournand was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 along with Werner Forssmann and Dickinson W. Richards for the development of cardiac catheterization .
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"
André F. Cournand (born Sept. 24, 1895, Paris, France—died Feb. 19, 1988, Great Barrington, Mass., U.S.) was a French-American physician and physiologist who in 1956 shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Dickinson W. Richards and Werner Forssmann for discoveries concerning heart catheterization and circulatory changes.
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André Frédéric Cournand. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1956. Born: 24 September 1895, Paris, France. Died: 19 February 1988, Great Barrington, MA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Columbia University Division, Cardio-Pulmonary Laboratory, Bellevue Hospital, New York, NY, USA.
Feb 20, 1988 · Dr. Andre F. Cournand, a professor of medicine at Columbia University for many years who won the Nobel Prize in 1956 for perfecting a simple method of exploring the heart through...
Jun 5, 2017 · Cournand was a pulmonary physiologist and a professor of medicine at Columbia University. In his quest to obtain mixed venous blood to calculate pulmonary blood flow, he catheterized the right atrium, right ventricle, and pulmonary artery in patients and also measured the pressures in these chambers.
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". To cite this section.
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