The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1924
Awarded on: 1924-10-23
"for his discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram"
Affiliations:
- Leiden University – Leiden, the Netherlands
Willem Einthoven
Born: 1860-05-21 in Semarang, Java, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia)
Gender: male
Field: Dutch physiologist (1860–1927)
Biography
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.