What is Werner Forssmann?
{{Infobox scientist |name = Werner Forßmann |image = Werner Forssmann nobel.jpg |image_size = 200px |caption = Werner Forßmann |birth_date = {{Birth date|1904|8|29|df=yes}} |birth_place = [[Berlin]], [[German Empire]] |death_date = {{Death date and age|1979|6|1|1904|8|29|df=yes}} |death_place = [[Schopfheim]], [[West Germany]] |residence = |citizenship = |nationality = Germany |ethnicity = |field = [[Medicine]] |work_institutions = |alma_mater = [[University of Berlin]] |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = [[Cardiac catheterization]] |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = |religion = |footnotes = |signature = }} {{nobelprize|Physiology or Medicine}}'''Werner Theodor Otto Forßmann''' (29 August 1904 – 1 June 1979) was a [[Germans|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]]. {{wikiquote-en}} {{commons cat}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Forssmann, Werner}} [[Category:Deaths from heart failure]] [[Category:Scientists from Berlin]] [[Category:1904 births]] [[Category:1979 deaths]] [[Category:German Nobel Prize winners]] {{bio-stub}} {{Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine}}