Cournand, Andre Frederic

C Timmermann

doi:10.1002/9780470015902.a0002391

Cournand, Andre Frederic

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Cournand, a French doctor and medical researcher who became an American cititzen in 1941, shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1956 with the German Werner Forssman and Cournand’s American mentor, Dickinson Richards. They were awarded the prize for a new, interventionist procedure, cardiac catheterization, which provided medical researchers with important insights into the condititions inside a working human heart and has since become part of the canon of routine clinical procedures in cardiology.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
Place of Publication	Chichester
Publisher	John Wiley & Sons Ltd
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470015902.a0002391
Publication status	Published - Feb 2011

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medical research, heart, circulation, cardiac catheterization, heart disease, Nobel prize, human experimentation, Second World War, research ethics

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