Werner Forssmann

Werner Forßmann
Werner Forßmann
Born
Werner Theodor Otto Forßmann

(1904-08-29)29 August 1904
Died1 June 1979(1979-06-01) (aged 74)
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Berlin
Known forCardiac catheterization
AwardsNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1956)
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine

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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