Cournand

American

[koor-nand, -nuhnd, koor-nahn] / ˈkʊər nænd, -nənd, kurˈnɑ̃ /

noun

André Frédéric 1895–1988, U.S. physiologist, born in France: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1956.

Cournand British

/ kurnɑ̃, ˈkʊənənd, -nænd /

noun

André ( Frederic ). 1895–1988, US physician, born in France: shared the 1956 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine for his work on heart catheterization

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Beginning in the early '30s two Columbia University researchers, Dr. Dickinson W. Richards and French-born Dr. Andre Cournand, read of Forssmann's experiment and developed a way to use it both for research and diagnosis.

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