Werner Forssmann
German physician, Nobel prize winner (1904-1979)
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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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- 1904
- Died
- 1979-06-01
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- 4
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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 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.
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1904 births1979 deathsBiography articles needing translation from German WikipediaGerman Nobel laureatesGerman prisoners of war in World War II held by the United StatesGrand Crosses with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of GermanyHumboldt University of Berlin alumniMedical doctors from BerlinMedical doctors in the Nazi PartyMedical doctors of the CharitéNobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine