André Frédéric Cournand

André Frédéric Cournand (1895 to 1988) was a French-American physician and physiologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956, with Werner Forssmann and Dickinson W. Richards, for the development of cardiac catheterization. Born in Paris, he emigrated to the United States in 1930 and became a naturalized citizen in 1941. For most of his career he was a professor at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and worked at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. His honours include the Anders Retzius Silver Medal of the Swedish Society for Internal Medicine in 1946, the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1949 and a founding membership of the World Cultural Council in 1981.