Willem Einthoven
May 21, 1860 –September 29, 1927
Inventor, Physician, Physiologist, University teacher
Lived 67 years
- Born in
- Semarang
- Passed away in
- Leiden
Willem Einthoven (21 May 1860 – 29 September 1927) was a Dutch medical doctor and physiologist. He invented the first practical electrocardiograph (ECG or EKG) in 1895 and received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1924 for it ("for the discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram").
Awards: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, National Inventors Hall of Fame, Foreign Member of the Royal Society Education: Utrecht University
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