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Werner Forssmann
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Werner Forssmann was a German physician who won the Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking medical work during the 20th century. His contributions to medicine were significant enough to earn him one of science's highest honors, though the context provided doesn't specify what his particular discovery or achievement was.
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- Born
- 1904
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Ueber die Wirkung der Leberfütterung auf das rote Blutbild und den Cholesterinspiegel im Serum des gesunden Menschen
- Die Sondierung des rechten Herzens
- Experiments on myself
- Selbstversuch
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5 total works indexed
- Controlled growth of monodisperse silica spheres in the micron size range
· 1968 · cited 13,431x
- 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure
· 2021 · cited 12,151x
- Rivaroxaban versus Warfarin in Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation
· 2011 · cited 7,947x
- A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World’s Forests
· 2011 · cited 7,146x
- MDS clinical diagnostic criteria for Parkinson's disease
· 2015 · cited 7,031x
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1956
“for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system”
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Forßmann, Werner Theodor Otto | Bad Kreuznach
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Encyclopedic overview
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 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 safely passed the catheter into his heart.
Early life
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