Willem Einthoven(1860)

Medicine

Willem Einthoven was a Dutch medical doctor and physiologist. He invented the first practical electrocardiograph in 1895 and received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1924 for it.

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Awards & Recognition

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

for his discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram

Leiden University
1924

Education

Utrecht University

Doctoral Advisor

Franciscus Donders

Positions & Roles

rector magnificus of Leiden University

Academy Memberships

American Academy of Arts and SciencesRoyal Swedish Academy of SciencesRussian Academy of SciencesPontifical Academy of Sciences

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