André Frédéric Cournand (September 24, 1895 – February 19, 1988) was a French-American
physician
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and
physiologist.
Biography
Cournand 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.
Born in
Paris
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, Cournand emigrated to the
United States
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in 1930 and, in 1941, became a
naturalized citizen. For most of his career, Cournand was a professor at the
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and worked at
Bellevue Hospital in
New York City
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.
Many seats of medical research have recognized his work, and he has received the Anders Retzius Silver Medal of the Swedish Society for Internal Medicine (1946), the
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1949), the John Philipps Memorial Award of the American College of Physicians (1952), the Gold Medal of the Académie Royale de Médecine de Belgique and of the Académie Nationale de Médecine, Paris (1956). He was elected Doctor (honoris causa) of the Universities of Strasbourg (1957), Lyon (1958), Brussels (1959), Pisa (1961), and D.Sc. of the University of Birmingham (1961).
In 1981, Cournand became a founding member of the
World Cultural Council.
His widow Beatrice died in 1993 aged 90.
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Nobel biographyNational Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir
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1895 births
1988 deaths
French Nobel laureates
American physiologists
Columbia Medical School faculty
Founding members of the World Cultural Council
French emigrants to the United States
French physiologists
French military personnel of World War I
Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine
Recipients of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Physicians from Paris
People from Great Barrington, Massachusetts
University of Paris alumni