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This digital document, covering the life and work of Andre (Frederic) Cournand, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 1358 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Claude Bernard, Paul Bert, François Magendie, Marie François Xavier Bichat, Charles Richet, André Frédéric Cournand, Edouard Seguin, Félix Archimède Pouchet, Paul Joseph Barthez, Paul Richer, Louis Couty, Raphaël Lépine, Paul Loye, Nicolas Maurice Arthus, Georges Henri Roger, Eugène Gley, Albert Dastre, Jean-Baptiste Sarlandière, François Achille Longet, Auguste Chauveau, Pierre-Hubert Nysten, Antoine Louis, André Strohl, Victor Pachon, Jules-Auguste Béclard, Charles Marie Benjamin Rouget, Ladislav Tauc. Excerpt:Albert Dastre (November 7, 1844 - October 22, 1917) was a French physiologist . He studied and worked under Claude Bernard (1813-1878) and Paul Bert (1830-1886) in Paris , and in 1886 attained the chair of General Physiology at the Sorbonne . In 1904 Dastre became a member of the Académie des sciences . One of his better-known assistants was Romanian physiologist Nicolae Paulescu (1869-1931), who was the discoverer of insulin . Albert Dastre specialized in the field of physiological chemistry , and is remembered for his studies of glycosuria and diabetes , as well as his discovery involving the proteolytic properties of blood. In 1893, he noticed a reduction of fibrin during a phlebotomy in dogs, which he attributed to a destruction of fibrin. He called this phenomena, fibrinolysis to describe the dissolution of fibrin and the break up of blood clots. Dastre also observed fibrin dissolve when mixed with an antiseptic salt solution, and postulated that it was a form of digestion. Among his written works was a philosophic and scientific treatise on life and death titled La Vie et la Mort , and in 1878-79 he published and edited Leçons sur les Phénomènes de la vie communs aux animaux et aux végétaux , a work composed by his former mentor, Claude Bernard. With his colleagu... ... Read more

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Chapters: André Frédéric Cournand, André Michel Lwoff, André Chantemesse, Gustave Malécot, Amédée Borrel, Charles Chamberland, Adrien Loir, Onésime Delafond, Jeanne Villepreux-Power, Louis Thuillier, Miroslav Radman, Achille Urbain, H. Elion. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: André Frédéric Cournand (September 24, 1895 February 19, 1988) was a French physician and physiologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 along with Werner Forssmann and Dickinson W. Richards for the development of cardiac catheterization. Born in Paris, Cournand emigrated to the United States in 1930 and, in 1941, became a naturalized citizen. For most of his career, Cournand was a professor at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and worked at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. Many seats of medical research have recognized his work, and he has received the Anders Retzius Silver Medal of the Swedish Society for Internal Medicine (1946), the Lasker Award of the United States Public Health Association (1949), the John Philipps Memorial Award of the American College of Physicians (1952), the Gold Medal of the Académie Royale de Médecine de Belgique and of the Académie Nationale de Médecine, Paris (1956). He was elected Doctor (honoris causa) of the Universities of Strasbourg (1957), Lyon (1958), Brussels (1959), Pisa (1961), and D.Sc. of the University of Birmingham (1961). ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1535528 ... Read more