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

1/3 of the prize

1/3 of the prize

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