Word: forssmann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some U.S. physicians asked last week whether the flurry of surgical virtuosity in heart transplants might be premature. A Canadian heart surgeon said it was. The Soviet Union's health ministry forbade Russian surgeons to do such transplants. Germany's Dr. Werner Forssmann, who won a Nobel Prize for dangerously daring heart research performed on himself, said: "I consider it a crime to perform an operation in a field where fundamental research is not yet finished...