André Frédéric Cournand (1895-1988)

Awarded the Prize “for the discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system.”

American physician and physiologist. Cournand was born in Paris on September 24, 1895. He obtained his bachelor’s degree at the Faculté des Lettres of the Sorbonne in 1913, taking the Diploma of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology of the Faculté des Sciences in the following year. He was awarded the M.D. degree of the Faculté de Médecine de Paris in 1930. He worked at the Columbia University Division at Bellevue Hospital and then became an American citizen in 1941. In 1951 he became Professor of Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Cournand died on February 19, 1988 at Great Barrington, Massachusetts.