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 been done almost three decades earlier, and when he...

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 could be introduced into a human heart without resulting...

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. Forssmann's father died in World War I while young...

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 Prize for physiology and medicine (along with two other cardiology researchers) for...

Werner Forßmann, (August 29, 1904 – June 1, 1979) was a physician from Eberswalde, Germany. He is credited with the first catheterization of a human heart. In 1929, he made an incision into his arm and fed a urinary catheter into the right atrium...