In 1929, Werner Theodor Otto Forssmann, a surgical resident at Eberswald Surgical Clinic outside Berlin, inserted a long thin tube into a vein in his own arm and threaded it nearly 2 feet to the right auricle of his own heart. He then climbed two flights of stairs to have an X-ray taken thus proving what he had done.
He was immediately fired from his position and the paper he published was rejected as a "circus stunt."
27 years later – 1956 Forssmann along with two American researchers received the Nobel Prize for their joints efforts in developing what is known today as cardiac catheterization.
He was immediately fired from his position and the paper he published was rejected as a "circus stunt."
27 years later – 1956 Forssmann along with two American researchers received the Nobel Prize for their joints efforts in developing what is known today as cardiac catheterization.
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