Awards & Winners

Werner Forssmann

Date of Birth 29-August-1904
Place of Birth Berlin
(Germany)
Nationality Germany
Also know as Dr. Werner Forssmann, Werner Forssman
Profession Physician
Werner Theodor Otto Forßmann was a physician from Germany who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine for developing a procedure that allowed for cardiac catheterization. In 1929, he put himself under local anesthetic and inserted a catheter into a vein of his arm. Not knowing when the catheter might pierce a vein, he risked his life and was able to pass the catheter into his heart.

Awards by Werner Forssmann

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1956


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system)