Werner Forssmann
German Nazi physician, politician
Died when: 74 years 276 days (897 months)Star Sign: Virgo
Werner Theodor Otto Forßmann (Forssmann in English; German pronunciation: ['v??n? 'f??s?man]; 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.
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