Werner Forssmann's Birth Card: The 10 of Hearts

In the record

Werner Theodor Otto Forßmann (Forssmann in English; German pronunciation: [ˈvɛʁnɐ ˈfɔʁsˌman] ; 29 August 1904 – 1 June 1979) was a German researcher and physician from Germany who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine (with Andre Frederic Cournand and Dickinson W. The birth-card coordinate for August 29 is the 10 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1956 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1956 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system

The 10 of Hearts coordinate

Werner Forssmann's birthday maps to the 10 of Hearts (The Community Heart). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Werner Forssmann. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make room for a lot of people and still keep a self inside the room.

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Werner Forssmann in the public record

Richards) for developing a procedure that allowed cardiac catheterization. In 1929, he put himself under local anesthesia and inserted a catheter into a vein of his arm. Not knowing if the catheter might pierce a vein, he put his life at risk. Forssmann was nevertheless successful; he safely passed the catheter into his heart. Forssmann was born in Berlin on 29 August 1904. Upon graduating from Askanisches Gymnasium, he entered the University of Berlin to study medicine, passing the State Examination in 1929. He hypothesized that a catheter could be inserted directly into the heart, for such applications as directly delivering drugs, injecting radiopaque dyes, or measuring blood pressure. The fear at the time was that such an intrusion into the heart would be fatal.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Werner Forssmann (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

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Werner Theodor Otto Forßmann (Forssmann in English; German pronunciation: [ˈvɛʁnɐ ˈfɔʁsˌman] ; 29 August 1904 – 1 June 1979) was a German researcher and physician from Germany who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine (with Andre Frederic Cournand and Dickinson W.

Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: medicine, physician.

Also on the record

1. To prove his point, he decided to try the experiment on himself.
2. In 1929, while working in Eberswalde, he performed the first human cardiac catheterization.
3. He ignored his department chief and persuaded the operating-room nurse in charge of the sterile supplies, Gerda Ditzen, to assist him.
4. She agreed, but only on the promise that he would do it on her rather than on himself.

Other laureates with this card

• Arthur B. McDonald — 2015 Physics
• Douglas Diamond — 2022 Economic Sciences
• Esther Duflo — 2019 Economic Sciences
• Grazia Deledda — 1926 Literature
• Heinrich Böll — 1972 Literature
• Hermann J. Muller — 1946 Physiology or Medicine
• Hjalmar Branting — 1921 Peace
• Johannes Diderik van der Waals — 1910 Physics
• Klaus Hasselmann — 2021 Physics
• Martin Ryle — 1974 Physics
• Maurice Maeterlinck — 1911 Literature
• Milton Friedman — 1976 Economic Sciences
• 5 more laureates share this card.

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