| André F. Cournand  AKA André Frédéric Cournand
Born: 24-Sep-1895
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: 19-Feb-1988
Location of death: Great Barrington, MA
Cause of death: Natural Causes
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Scientist, Doctor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Cardiac catheterization Military service: French Army (1915-18) French-American physician and physiologist André F. Cournand studied circulation of the blood, and advanced understanding and treatment for heart disease. He won the Nobel Prize in 1956, shared with his colleague Dickinson W. Richards and the German country doctor Werner Forssmann, for cardiac catheterization, in which a catheter is inserted through a vein into the heart. Cournand published about 100 papers on the cardiopulmonary system, and established better methods to measure cardiac output and blood pressure in the right heart and the pulmonary artery. He edited The American Journal of Physiology, became an American citizen in 1941, and served on the Chemical Warfare Service in World War II. Father: Jules Cournand (physician, d. 1932)
Mother: Marguérite Weber Cournand
Wife: Sibylle Blumer Cournand (d. 1959)
Son: Pierre Birel Rosset-Cournand (stepson, b. 3-Jun-1924, d. 15-Sep-1944 WWII combat)
Daughter: Muriel Cournand Jaeger
Daughter: Marie-Eve Cournand Walker
Daughter: Marie-Claire Cournand (physician)
High School: Condorcet College, Paris, France
University: BA, Sorbonne (1913)
University: MS Physics, Chemistry, and Biology, Sorbonne (1914)
Scholar: Pasteur Institute, Paris (early 1920s)
Medical School: MD, University of Paris (1930)
Scholar: Columbia University (1930)
Teacher: Medicine, Columbia University (1934-51)
Professor: Medicine, Columbia University (1951-88)
Croix de Guerre 1918
Lasker Award 1949
Nobel Prize for Medicine 1956, with Dickinson W. Richards and Werner Forssmann
French Legion of Honor 1958
Association of American Physicians
American Physiological Society
National Academy of Sciences 1968
Naturalized US Citizen 1941
French Ancestry
Author of books:
From Roots to Late Budding: The Intellectual Adventures of a Medical Scientist (1986, autobiography, co-author Michael Meyer)
The Code of Science: Analysis and Reflections on Its Future (1970, co-author Harriet Anne Zuckerman)
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