Died 1979-06-01.
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Werner Forssmann
Werner Theodor Otto Forßmann was a German researcher and physician from Germany who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine for developing a procedure that allowed cardiac catheterization. In 1929, he put himself under local anesthesia and inserted a catheter into a vein of his arm. Not knowing if the catheter might pierce a vein, he put his life at risk. Forssmann was nevertheless successful; he…
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science · German physician, Nobel prize winner (1904–1979) · military physician · surgeon · urologist · cardiologist · physiologist · physician · university teacher · also Werner Forssmann, Forssmann
Born 29 August 1904 · Died 1 June 1979 · Q77152
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1962· 1 entry
Became a member of the executive board of the German Society of Surgery
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1961· 1 entry
Became an honorary professor at the National University of Córdoba
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1956· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1956).
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Cournand, Richards, and Forßmann
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1954· 1 entry
Was given the Leibniz Medal of the German Academy of Sciences
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1950· 1 entry
Began practice as a urologist in Bad Kreuznach
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1945· 1 entry
Worked as a lumberjack and then as a country medic in the Black Forest with his wife
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1934· 1 entry
Knut Forßmann in 1936, Jörg Forßmann in 1938, Wolf Forßmann in 1939 (who was first to isolate the atrial natriuretic peptide), Bernd Forßmann in 1940 (who helped develop the first clinical lithotriptor), and Renate Forßm
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1929· 2 entries
While working in Eberswalde, he performed the first human cardiac catheterization
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Put himself under local anesthesia and inserted a catheter into a vein of his arm
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1904· 1 entry
Born 1904-08-29.
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