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Werner Forssmann

1904 - 1979

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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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Werner Forssmann is the 110th most popular physician (down from 102nd in 2019), the 658th most popular biography from Germany (down from 652nd in 2019) and the 12th most popular German Physician.

Werner Forßmann was a German mathematician and physicist who is most famous for his work in the field of electromagnetism.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Werner Forssmann ranks 110 out of 726. Before him are Ulf von Euler, Niels Kaj Jerne, Cornelius Jansen, Frederick Banting, Harvey J. Alter, and Ctesias. After him are James Parkinson, Herbert Spencer Gasser, Albert Sabin, Arvid Carlsson, Eric Kandel, and Stanley Cohen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Werner Forssmann ranks 29. Before him are Odilo Globočnik, René Lacoste, John Hicks, Joan Crawford, Ernst Mayr, and Hans Albert Einstein. After him are Alejo Carpentier, Gerhard Herzberg, Hans Morgenthau, Witold Gombrowicz, Glenn Miller, and Dmitry Kabalevsky. Among people deceased in 1979, Werner Forssmann ranks 30. Before him are Hanna Reitsch, Agostinho Neto, Sid Vicious, Feodor Lynen, Nelson Rockefeller, and Bertil Ohlin. After him are Nur Muhammad Taraki, Jean Seberg, Reinhard Gehlen, Yukio Tsuda, Wilhelm Bittrich, and Abul A'la Maududi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Werner Forssmann ranks 658 out of 7,253. Before him are Erhard Milch (1892), George Grosz (1893), August Macke (1887), Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland (1653), Niklas Luhmann (1927), and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942). After him are Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1811), Conrad Schumann (1942), August Horch (1868), Rudolf Bultmann (1884), Jenny von Westphalen (1814), and Bruno Bauer (1809).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Werner Forssmann ranks 12. Before him are Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884), Emil Kraepelin (1856), Samuel Hahnemann (1755), Gerhard Domagk (1895), Otto Loewi (1873), and Theodor Morell (1886). After him are Johannes Peter Müller (1801), Hinrich Lichtenstein (1780), Johann Joachim Becher (1635), Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840), Ryke Geerd Hamer (1935), and Theodor Billroth (1829).

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