Werner Forssmann

Werner Theodor Otto Forßmann (29 August 1904 – 1 June 1979) was a German physician. He was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956. Forssmann studied the active principles and discovered cardiac catheterization.

Category:Deaths from heart failure
Category:Scientists from Berlin
Category:1904 births
Category:1979 deaths
Category:German Nobel Prize winners
Category:Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winners