Werner Forssmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Werner Forssmann

German physician, Nobel prize winner

Date of Birth: 29-Aug-1904

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 01-Jun-1979

Profession: surgeon, physiologist, cardiologist, military physician, urologist

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Werner Theodor Otto Forßmann (Forssmann in English; 29 August 1904 – 1 June 1979) was a 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.