Werner Forssmann
Extent and Medium
[8] p.
Envelope 6/111 ; microfilm reel 062; frame 885-899.
Scope and Content
"Werner Theodor Otto Forßmann (Forssmann in English; 29 August 1904 – 1 June 1979) was a physician from Germany who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine (with Andre Cournand and Dickinson Richards) for developing a procedure that allowed for 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."--wikipedia(English)(viewed 3.7.2016).
Newspaper clippings, biographical information
Note(s)
Detailed dates of material: 1956 - 1957, 1959.
People
- Forssmann, Werner, 1904 - 1979
Subjects
- Medical personnel--Germany--20th century.
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