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Dutch physiologist (1860–1927)

Willem Einthoven (21 May 1860 – 29 September 1927) was a Dutchmedical doctor and physiologist.

He invented the first practical electrocardiograph (ECG or EKG) in 1895^[1] and received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1924 for it ("for the discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram").^[2]

Early life and education

Willem Einthoven was born in Semarang on Java in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), the son of Louise Marie Mathilde Caroline de Vogel and Jacob Einthoven.^[3] His father, a doctor, died when Willem was a child.

His mother returned to the Netherlands with her children in 1870 and settled in Utrecht. His father was of Jewish and Dutch descent, and his mother's ancestry was Dutch and Swiss.^[4][5][6] In 1885, Einthoven received a medical degree from the University of Utrecht.

Career

He became a professor at the University o