Eugene Braunwald

Eugene Braunwald (born August 15, 1929 in Vienna ) is an American cardiologist .

He was in Austria born, but his parents fled after the connection of Austria to the German Reich with him and his brother in November 1939, after a brief stay in England, on the USS Harding in the United States.

Braunwald has written more than 1100 publications and is significantly involved in the leading textbooks in the field of internal medicine and especially cardiology . He is also the only cardiologist among the members of the National Academy of Sciences (since 1974) and also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1973).

He was best known for his discovery in 1971 that heart attacks are progressive events and do not happen out of the blue. This realization has saved the lives of many people since then.

Braunwald is now a professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston .

In 1981 the doctor John Darsee (with whom Braunwald published) was convicted of fraud at his laboratory at Harvard University. The case was the subject of several investigative commissions and in the meantime also had an impact on the financing of Braunwald's research.

In 1965 he received the John J. Abel Award in Pharmacology, the George M. Kober Medal in 1998 and the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize in 2001 .

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1. ↑ M. Dietel, N. Suttorp, M. Zeitz, DC Kasper, E. Braunwald, AS Fauci, SL Hauser, DL Longo, JL Jameson (eds.): Harrison's internal medicine. 16th edition. German edition in cooperation with the Charité. McGraw Hill, ABW-Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-936072-29-9 .
2. ^ DP Zipes, P. Libby, RO Bonow, E. Braunwald: Braunwald's Heart Disease, A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. Elsevier Saunders, Philadelphia 2005, ISBN 0-8089-2305-6 .

• Brauner presented decorations : City hall correspondence from May 11, 2005 on wien.at (accessed December 5, 2012)

Web links

• Literature by and about Eugene Braunwald in the catalog of the German National Library