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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1956

"for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system"
André Frédéric Cournand Werner Forssmann Dickinson W. Richards
André Frédéric Cournand Werner Forssmann Dickinson W. Richards
third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize
USA Federal Republic of Germany USA
Columbia University Division, Cardio-Pulmonary Laboratory, Bellevue Hospital
New York, NY, USA		 Mainz University
Mainz, Federal Republic of Germany;
Bad Kreuznach, Federal Republic of Germany		 Columbia University
New York, NY, USA
b. 1895
(in Paris, France)
d. 1988		 b. 1904
d. 1979		 b. 1895
d. 1973
 
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