biography
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Cournand, André F(rédéric)
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pronunciation:
[koornã]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1895–1988)
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| biography:
| Physician, born in Paris, France. He served in the French army (1915–19), received his MD degree, then emigrated to the USA (1930) and joined the staff of Columbia University and Bellevue Hospital (1930–64). A specialist in cardiac surgery, he shared the 1956 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (with his collaborator Dickinson Richards and German physician Werner Forssmann) for developing the technique of cardiac catheterization. He later expanded his work to include research on the lungs. After 1964 he trained physicians for research in his field, and developed educational programmes on the history and social responsibility of science. |
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