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A Bergstra, A F M van den Heuvel, G A Mook, F Zijlstra.
Abstract
In 1956, three men were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, in particular 'for their discoveries concerning heart catheterisation and pathological changes in the circulatory system'. Their names in alphabetical order: André F. Cournand, Werner Forssmann and Dickinson W. Richards. Forssmann's experiment dated from 1929, while Cournand and Richards started their work in 1941. The order in which they presented their Nobel lectures on 11 December 1956 was Forssmann, Richards, Cournand.Entities:
Keywords: cardiac catheterisation; cardiac output; haemodynamics; history
Year: 2005 PMID: 25696475 PMCID: PMC2497292
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neth Heart J ISSN: 1568-5888 Impact factor: 2.380