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The history of cardiac catheterization is a rich and colorful tale with numerous innovators, pioneers, and Nobel laureates making contributions. Werner Forssmann in 1929 took an x-ray image of a urinary catheter inserted from his own brachial vein into his right atrium, an innova­tion that led to both a Nobel Prize and the end of his cardiology career. Andre Cournand and Dickinson Richards Jr. from the Columbia Service at Bellevue Hospital built on Forssmann’s discovery and shared in the Nobel Prize, establishing the use of cardiac catheterization to measure pressure and saturation and the use of contrast media to image the cardiac chambers. Mason Sones at Cleveland Clinic inadvertently performed the first selective coronary angiogram in 1958 on a young man with severe rheumatic heart disease, recognized its potential, and eventually lead to the era of coronary revascularization. At the Mayo Clinic, Earl H. Wood used the physiologic techniques he developed to study why pilots lose consciousness at high G-forces and adapted them for invasive evaluation of congenital heart lesions and other cardiac shunts. His techniques were integral to successful cardiopulmonary bypass, allowing open heart surgery.