Willem Einthoven (Semarang, May 21, 1860 - Leiden, September 29, 1927) was a Dutch Lutheran doctor and physiologist. He invented the first practical electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) in 1903 and received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1924 for it. Einthoven was born in Semarang on Java in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). His father, a medical doctor, died when Einthoven was a child. His mother returned to the Netherlands with her children in 1870 and settled in Utrecht. Wikipedia
Behold: Einthoven's Triangle ! Each of the 6 frontal plane leads has a negative and positive orientation (as indicated by the '+' and '-' signs). library.med.utah.edu/kw/ecg/ecg_outline/Lesson1/lead_dia....
... of the electrocardiogram" Willem Einthoven the Netherlands Leiden University Leiden, the Netherlands b. 1860 (in Semarang, Java, then Dutch East Indies) d. 1927 Titles, data ... nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1924/index.html
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Willem Einthoven designed the first instrument that accurately recorded the electrical activity of the heart and produced the first reliable electrocardiogram. His string galvanometer enabled detection of abnormal heart function, dramatically advancing t www.invent.org/2008induction/1_3_08_induction_einthoven.asp
Einthoven was born in Semarang on Java in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia ). His father, a medical doctor, died when Einthoven was a child. His mother returned to the Netherlands with her children in 1870 and settled in Utrecht . In 1885, Einthove danceage.com/biography/Willem_Einthoven
Willem Einthoven was born on May 21, 1860, in Semarang on the island of Java, in the former Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). His father was Jacob Einthoven , born and educated in Groningen, The Netherlands, an army medical officer in the Indies, who la nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1924/einth...
