Edmund Sonnenblick, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edmund Sonnenblick

Date of Birth: 07-Dec-1932

Place of Birth: New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Date of Death: 22-Sep-2007

Profession: cardiologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Edmund Hiram Sonnenblick (December 7, 1932 – September 22, 2007) was an American medical researcher and cardiologist.
His studies of the function of cardiac muscle cells during the 1960s shaped the basis of both cardiovascular physiology and the modern treatment of cardiovascular disease, making possible the development of ACE inhibitors.
In 1962, he was also credited as the first person to image the heart muscle under scientifically-controlled conditions using the electron microscope.
Though Sonnenblick's ideas about the relationship between the structure and function of the human heart 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 that he did will forever shape everyday treatments of heart disease."