Werner Forssmann Summary

Werner Theodor Otto Forssmann 1904-1979 German physician who, by experimenting on himself, was the first to develop a technique for catheterization of the heart. Forssmann was awarded the 1956 Nobel P... Read more

Few people would go to the extreme of using their own body to prove a point, but that is exactly what Dr. Werner Forssmann (1904-1979) did when he experimented on himself to prove that a catheter coul... Read more

Werner Theodor Otto Forssmann, a surgeon and urologist, was born on August 29, 1904, in Berlin, the only child of Julius Forssmann, a lawyer employed by a life insurance company, and Emmy Hindenberg. ... Read more

Werner Forssmann, a surgeon and urologist, was relatively unknown in his native Germany when he won the Nobel Prize in 1956 for his work in heart catheterization. His ground-breaking experiment had be... Read more