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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...
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    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 with André Cournand and Werner Forssmann for the development of cardiac catheterization and the characterisation...
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  • Werner Forssmann, (1904–1979), German physician, received Nobel Prize for cardiological studies Werner Franz (born 1972), Austrian alpine skier Werner Funck...
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    awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 along with Werner Forssmann and Dickinson W. Richards for the development of cardiac catheterization...
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    models. Clinical application of cardiac catheterization begins with Dr. Werner Forssmann in 1929, who inserted a catheter into the vein of his own forearm,...
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    Nation'. From the Nobel Prize in Medicine acceptance speech given by Werner Forssmann in 1956: "The credit for carrying out the first catheterization of...
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  • Fahrenheit Horst Feistel Peter Finke Hermann Emil Fischer Naika Foroutan Werner Forssmann Salomon Franck Joseph Fraunhofer Reinhard Furrer Carl Friedrich Gauss...
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  • Touched His Own Heart (Little Brown, February, 2015), a biography of Werner Forssmann Never Out of Season: How Having the Food We Want When We Want It Threatens...
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    permission from the relevant ethics committee of their institution. Werner Forssmann was so determined to proceed with his self-experiment that he continued...
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  • 1963 J. Hans D. Jensen, Physics, 1963 Rudolf Mössbauer, Physics, 1961 Werner Forssmann, Physiology or Medicine, 1956 Polykarp Kusch*, Physics, 1955 Max Born*...
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    Pickford, Canadian-American actress and producer (b. 1892) June 1 Werner Forssmann, German researcher and physician (b. 1904) Ján Kadár, Czechoslovakian...
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    Medicine ("for the discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram") Werner Forssmann (1904–1979), who infamously performed the first human catheterization...
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    Krankenhaus Moabit employed notable physicians like the Nobel Laureate Werner Forssmann, Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner and the resistance fighter Georg Groscurth...
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    Campini, Italian jet pioneer; in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna (d. 1980) Born: Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine;...
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    catheterization was first performed in 1929 when the German physician Werner Forssmann inserted a plastic tube in his cubital vein and guided it to the right...
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    Hermann Emil Fischer – chemist (Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1902) Werner Forssmann – physician (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956) Robert...
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  • May 6 – Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (b. 1892), German astronomer. June 1 – Werner Forssmann (b. 1904), German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology...
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    world's first radio concert was broadcast from Eberswalde in 1923. Werner Forssmann received his 1956 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his 1929...
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    Cyril Norman Hinshelwood; Nikolay Semyonov André Frédéric Cournand; Werner Forssmann; Dickinson W. Richards Juan Ramón Jiménez None 1957 Yang Chen-Ning;...
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    electroencephalogram and discovered alpha waves. 1929: Cardiac catheterization by Werner Forssmann 1932: Prontosil by Josef Klarer and Fritz Mietzsch at Bayer 1934: Synthesis...
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    chemistry in 1902 Bruno Flierl (b. 1927), architect and city planner Werner Forßmann (1904–1979), physician, Nobel Prize for medicine in 1956 James Franck...
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    Weller / Frederick Robbins 1955: Hugo Theorell 1956: André Cournand / Werner Forssmann / Dickinson W. Richards 1957: Daniel Bovet 1958: George Beadle / Edward...
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  • foundation for automatic on-off aircraft control systems in jets. Werner Forssmann: Performed the first human cardiac catheterisation. Shared the Nobel...
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    Weller / Frederick Robbins 1955: Hugo Theorell 1956: André Cournand / Werner Forssmann / Dickinson W. Richards 1957: Daniel Bovet 1958: George Beadle / Edward...
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian and academic (b. 1892) 1979 – Werner Forssmann, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904) 1980...
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    The first open heart surgery by English surgeon Henry Souttar. 1929. Werner Forssmann performed the first cardiac catheterization, on himself. 1931. The...
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  • Friedrich Flick Friedrich Karl Florian Hermann Florstedt Otto Förschner Werner Forßmann Albert Forster Theodor Förster Ernst Forsthoff Wolfgang Fortner Hans...
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  • 28 – Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer (died 1980) August 29 – Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...
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    Philippine and Canadian TV news anchor; in San Mateo, Rizal Died: Werner Forssmann, 74, German physician and 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine winner who developed...
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    Franz Ernst Potthoff (1924) Joseph Schneider, entrepreneur (1928) Werner Forßmann (1957), Nobel Prize in Medicine 1956 Hans Staab, owner of a large magazine...
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