Eugene Braunwald [SEP] place of birth
Eugene Braunwald
Eugene Braunwald (born August 15, 1929 in Vienna, Austria) is an American cardiologist.
Early life.
Braunwald was born to Jewish parents Wilhelm Braunwald and Clara Wallach in Vienna. He obtained his A.B. and medical degree at New York University, and completed his residency in internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Braunwald was inspired to pursue a career in cardiology after practicing in the Bellevue Cardiology Clinic, under Ludwig Eichna, during his time as a medical student at New York University. He
today constitute medical-scientific commonsense, they were utterly novel at the time.
Reflecting on Sonnenblick's discoveries, Harvard cardiologist Eugene Braunwald wrote that "Ed Sonnenblick occupies an honored place along with Ernest Starling, Carl Wiggers, and very few others in the pantheon of the greatest cardiovascular physiologists of the twentieth century." After Sonnenblick's death in 2007, a tribute published in the prominent peer-reviewed journal "Circulation Research" remembered Sonnenblick as "simply an intellectual giant in the field of cardiovascular research, and the work