Dr. André Frédéric Cournand (September 24, 1895 – February 19, 1988) was a physician and physiologist, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 along with Werner Forssmann and Dickinson W. Richards for the development of cardiac catheterization. September 24 is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years). ... 1895 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... February 19 is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A physician is a person who practices medicine. ... Physiology (in Greek physis = nature and logos = word) is the study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of living organisms. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. ... 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Werner Forssmann, (August 29, 1904-June 1, 1979) was a physician from Eberswalde, Germany. ... Dr. Dickinson Woodruff Richards Jr (October 30, 1895 - February 23, 1973) was an American physician and physiologist. ... Catheter disassembled In medicine, a catheter is a tube that a health professional may insert into part of the body. ...
In 1930, Cournand emigrated to the United States and, in 1941 he became a naturalized citizen. For most of his career, Cournand was a professor at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in New York City. 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Naturalization is the process whereby a person becomes a national of a nation, or a citizen of a country, other than the one of his birth. ... Columbia University Medical Center is name of the medical complex associated with Columbia University located in Washington Heights area of Manhattan. ... Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ...
Cournand's mother, Marguerite Weber Cournand, loved literature and learning and encouraged in her son a deep interest in philosophy and art, which Cournand maintained even while pursuing his medical studies and research.
Cournand began to be recognized for his research in the mid-1940s, when he was invited to speak at and lead various conferences.
Cournand retired in 1964 and devoted the years until his death to the study of the social and ethical implications of modern science.
André Frédéric Cournand was born in Paris, where he lived the first thirty-five years of his long life until his emigration to the United States.
As Cournand writes in his autobiography, the influence of his mother was to give him a strong sense for the arts and an inclination toward adventure: "In my mother the adventurous spirit expressed itself primarily through imagination and sympathetic recognition of the impetus of adventure in others.
Cournand became an experimental investigator through his association with Richards, with whom he remained closely associated throughout their lives and with whom he won the Nobel Prize in 1956.1 Born in New Jersey the same year as Cournand, Richards also took up his medical studies in 1919 after some war service.
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