biography
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| lived:
| (1904–79)
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| biography:
| Physician, born in Berlin, Germany. He studied at Berlin University, was an army doctor until 1945, then practised at various places, becoming chief of surgery at Dresden-Friedrichstadt, and at Dusseldorf in 1958. He became known for his development of new techniques in heart surgery, including cardiac catheterization, in which he carried out dangerous experiments on himself. He shared the 1956 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. |
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