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50th anniversary of the award of the Nobel Prize for Medicine to Werner Forßmann - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 2006 - 90 Euro Cent


Theme: Calender
CountryGermany / Federal Republic of Germany
Issue Date2006
Face Value90.00 
PerforationS 14
Printing Typeoffset
Stamp TypePostage stamp
Item TypeStamp
Chronological Issue Number2446
Chronological ChapterGER-BRD
SID44700
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The physician Werner Forßmann is considered the inventor of the cardiac catheter. In 1956 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology. Forßmann was born on 29 August 1904 in Berlin. After medical school he was a resident physician in Eberswalde. The then leading physicians taught that the heart reacts to the introduction of a foreign body with a standstill. Nevertheless, the 25-year-old Forßmann undertook a sensational self-experiment: He inserted a tube from the arm vein into the right ventricle and confirmed this with an X-ray - the first cardiac catheterization in the world. Today, this technique allows accurate cardiac examinations and saves many people an operation. Forßmann died on June 1, 1979 in Schopfheim (Baden-Württemberg).

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The physician Werner Forßmann is considered the inventor of the cardiac catheter. In 1956 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology. Forßmann was born on 29 August 1904 in Berlin. After medical school he was a resident physician in Eberswalde. The then leading physicians taught that the heart reacts to the introduction of a foreign body with a standstill. Nevertheless, the 25-year-old Forßmann undertook a sensational self-experiment: He inserted a tube from the arm vein into the right ventricle and confirmed this with an X-ray - the first cardiac catheterization in the world. Today, this technique allows accurate cardiac examinations and saves many people an operation. Forßmann died on June 1, 1979 in Schopfheim (Baden-Württemberg)..