Nature: Willem Einthoven Center of Arrhythmia Research and Management (WECAM)
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Willem Einthoven
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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science · Dutch physiologist (1860–1927) · inventor · physician · physiologist · university teacher · also Willem Einthoven, W. Einthoven, Einthoven
Born 21 May 1860 · Died 28 September 1927 · Q189488
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2019· 1 entry
New Scientist: How Willem Einthoven gave doctors a window on the heart
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2008).
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1927· 1 entry
Died 1927-09-28.
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1926· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1926).
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1925· 1 entry
The String Galvanometer and the Measurement of the Action Currents of the Heart
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1924· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1924).
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Einthoven was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for inventing the first practical system of electrocardiography used in medical diagnosis
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1905· 1 entry
Career landmark: rector magnificus of Leiden University (1905–1906).
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1902· 1 entry
Became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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1901· 1 entry
Einthoven completed a series of prototypes of a string galvanometer
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1895· 1 entry
And received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1924 for it ("for the discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram")
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1885· 1 entry
Einthoven received a medical degree from the University of Utrecht
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1860· 1 entry
Born 1860-05-21.
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