Werner Otto Theodor Forssmann (* 29 August 1904 in Berlin; "† 1 June 1979 in tuft home) was a German physician, who can be considered as inventors of the heart catheter. In late acknowledgment of its work it kept the Nobelpreis for medicine for its discoveries common on 18 October 1956, with Frdric Cournand and Dickinson Woodruff Richards, to the Herzkatheterisierung and to the pathological changes in the circulation system.

Work

After the medicine study at the citizens of Berlin Friedrich William university, the today's Humboldt university, Forssmann worked as Assistenzarzt in the August Victoria hospital in Eberswalde. Here it led in the spring 1929, 25-year old and after appropriate patient attempts had been rejected, its self attempt to the Herzkatheterisierung through. It pushed itself of the Armvene out a rubber hose up to the right Herzkammer and documented this with a radiograph. On 5 November its work was published over the sounding of the right heart, however - similarly as in April 1931 its lecture on the conference of the German society for surgery - in the professional world hardly found resonance.

First the publication (from the one citizen of Berlin had made daily paper a sensation message) had only unwanted consequences: He saw himself to plagiarism reproaches and lost, briefly before as an unsalaried employee assistant at the surgical hospital of the employed, this position suspended again. Forssmann quotes the hospital boss at that time Ferdinand sour break with the words: "„With such feats one habilitiert oneself in a circus and not at a decent German hospital. "“However this offered after the lecture of 1931 the return to it.

In the consequence Forssmann turned to the urology. Still in the 30's-years he could dress the post of an upper physician at several hospitals. Forssmann, NSDAP member since 1932 as well as later also member of the SA and the LV physician federation, was in the Second World War a medical officer for surgery. It bridged the time of the Entnazifizierung in pointed in the Black Forest in practice to its wife, before it took up an activity starting from 1950 as Urologe at the institutes for deacon IE to Bad Kreuznach.

After 1954 its Leibniz medal of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR had been appreciated of earnings/services for the therapeutic heart surgery with the award for the first time, it received the Nobelpreis to 1956 - the along-excellent Cournand and Richards were discovered with their research Forssmanns of self attempts.

1958 received a chief physician post of the surgical department of the Evangelist hospital in Duesseldorf to Forssmann, where he was active up to its retirement. Besides the universities of Mainz (1956) had it, (Argentina) (1961) and Duesseldorf (1964) appointed the fee professor.

When it 1977 the medical faculty of the Humboldt university lent, it meant in the Laudatio: "„To it belongs the historical merit/service, beside the Herzkatheterisierung also the contrast central representation of the heart to have discovered and their Gefahrlosigkeit for humans to have actually proven. "“

Professor Dr. Werner Forssmann spent its retirement in pointed. It died on 1 June 1979 in tuft home.

Honours

• Leibniz medal of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (1954)
• Nobelpreis for medicine (1956)
• The medical faculty of the Humboldt university (1977)
• Large Order of Merit with shoulder-bound and star

Publications

• Over the sounding of the right heart. In: Berlin clinical weekly revue from 5 November 1929
• Self attempt. Memories of a surgeon. Duesseldorf 1972 ISBN 360916056X

Related links

• Ralf '' The heart catheter self attempt: Seal and truth '' (articles in the physician newspaper)
• Ingrid Graubner: '' The way to the heart '' (articles in Humboldt, the university newspaper of the Humboldt university in the pdf format)
• '' Self attempt at the heart '' (articles in Humboldt, the university newspaper of the Humboldt university)

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