Word: forssmann
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DIED. Werner Forssmann, 74, Nobel-prize-winning German surgeon; of a heart attack; in Schopfheim, West Germany. Forssmann's 1956 prize recognized a feat he had performed 27 years earlier as an intern: defying a then prevalent medical taboo against tampering with the living heart, he threaded a thin tube through the vein of his left arm until it reached his right ventricle. The catheterization technique he thus pioneered became a standard tool in treating cardiac problems...