Werner Forssmann - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1956
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Werner Forssmann

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1956
for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system
Together with: André Frédéric Cournand , Dickinson W. Richards
Citizenship
German Reich German Reich West Germany West Germany German Empire German Empire
Languages
German
date of birth
8/29/1904
place of birth
Berlin
date of death
6/1/1979
place of death
Schopfheim
Lived
74 years

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member of
  • Sturmabteilung
  • North Rhine-Westphalia Academy for Sciences and Arts
field of work
  • cardiology
occupation
  • surgeon
  • physiologist
  • cardiologist
  • military physician
  • urologist
  • physician
  • university teacher
position held
  • professor
employer
  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
work location
  • Frankfurt (Oder)
educated at
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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