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André Frédéric Cournand

1895 - 1988

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André Frédéric Cournand (September 24, 1895 – February 19, 1988) was a French-American physician and physiologist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. André Frédéric Cournand is the 69th most popular physician (up from 100th in 2019), the 544th most popular biography from France (up from 807th in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Physician.

André Frédéric Cournand was a physician and physiologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 for his work on the physiology of the heart and the circulatory system.

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Among physicians, André Frédéric Cournand ranks 69 out of 726. Before him are Jean-Martin Charcot, Francesco Redi, António Egas Moniz, René Laennec, Franz Mesmer, and Robert Bellarmine. After him are Otto Loewi, Hilary of Poitiers, William P. Murphy, Christiaan Barnard, Ambroise Paré, and Johannes Fibiger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, André Frédéric Cournand ranks 30. Before him are Dolores Ibárruri, Gerhard Domagk, Anastas Mikoyan, Sergei Yesenin, Henrik Dam, and Artturi Ilmari Virtanen. After him are Levi Eshkol, J. Edgar Hoover, Cemal Gürsel, Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Cristóbal Balenciaga, and Ludvík Svoboda. Among people deceased in 1988, André Frédéric Cournand ranks 13. Before him are John Holmes, Bacha Khan, Ernst Ruska, Valery Legasov, Nikolaas Tinbergen, and Kurt Georg Kiesinger. After him are Divine, Robert A. Heinlein, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Chiang Ching-kuo, Tibor Sekelj, and Juan Pujol García.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Frédéric Cournand ranks 544 out of 6,770. Before him are Joseph Joffre (1852), Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727), Louis Aragon (1897), Jean Lannes (1769), and John Vianney (1786). After him are Jacques Monod (1910), Allan Kardec (1804), Baldwin II of Jerusalem (1060), André Michel Lwoff (1902), Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394), and Édouard Mortier, Duke of Trévise (1768).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, André Frédéric Cournand ranks 10. Before him are Claude Bernard (1813), Alexis Carrel (1873), Charles Nicolle (1866), Philippe Pinel (1745), Jean-Martin Charcot (1825), and René Laennec (1781). After him are Hilary of Poitiers (315), Ambroise Paré (1510), Karl Brandt (1904), Jean Nicot (1530), Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805), and Marie François Xavier Bichat (1771).

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