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    Willem Einthoven (21 May 1860 – 29 September 1927) was a Dutch medical doctor and physiologist. He invented the first practical electrocardiograph (ECG...
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    with the heart at the center. It is named after Willem Einthoven, who theorized its existence. Einthoven used these measuring points, by immersing the hands...
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    after Dutch physiologist and Nobel laureate Willem Einthoven. Prior to formal naming by the IAU in 1970, Einthoven was called Crater 273. By convention these...
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    was slow. Physiologists worked to find a better instrument. In 1901, Willem Einthoven described the science background and potential utility of a string...
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    in 1959. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Willem Einthoven, the Dutch inventor of the electrocardiograph. Antarctic Digital Database...
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  • developed from the mercury capillary electrometer by Willem Einthoven. In 1901 to 1905, Einthoven developed the string galvanometer, which could measure...
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    train. This allowed a heartbeat to be recorded in real time. In 1895, Willem Einthoven assigned the letters P, Q, R, S, and T to the deflections in the theoretical...
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    Frederick Banting; John Macleod W. B. Yeats None 1924 Manne Siegbahn None Willem Einthoven Władysław Reymont None 1925 James Franck; Gustav Ludwig Hertz Richard...
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    form the anatomical basis of the electrocardiogram, whose inventor, Willem Einthoven, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1924. The...
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  • – Arthur Achleitner, German journalist and author (b. 1858) 1927 – Willem Einthoven, Indonesian-Dutch physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate...
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    painter and printmaker Willem Einthoven (1860–1927), Dutch doctor, physiologist, and inventor of the electrocardiogram Willem Elsschot (1882–1960), Flemish...
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    by Wilhelm Röntgen in 1895, and electrocardiography, described by Willem Einthoven in 1903, facilitated the investigation of heart failure. The 19th century...
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    when Willem Einthoven, working in Leiden, used his more sensitive string galvanometer, than the capillary electrometer that Waller used. Einthoven assigned...
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    cousin and brother-in-law Willem Einthoven; he graduated with honors on 19 January 1893, turning in a thesis focused on Einthoven's pioneering use of electrocardiograms...
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  • public. Nobel Prizes Physics: Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn Medicine: Willem Einthoven February – Li Xintian (died 2019), Chinese neuropsychologist February...
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  • anthrax vaccine. 1882 – Louis Pasteur develops a rabies vaccine. 1887 – Willem Einthoven invents electrocardiography (ECG/EKG) 1890 – Emil von Behring discovers...
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    the jugular venous pulse, was made by Sir James MacKenzie in 1904. Willem Einthoven published the first ECG showing AF in 1906. The connection between...
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    cardiologist from Pune, India who received Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Willem Einthoven (1860–1927), a physiologist who built the first practical ECG and won...
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    Hill / Otto Meyerhof 1923: Frederick Banting / John Macleod 1924: Willem Einthoven 1925 1926–1950 1926: Johannes Fibiger 1927: Julius Wagner-Jauregg 1928:...
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    Veltman (1999) Gerard 't Hooft (1999) Andre Geim (2010) Physiology or medicine Willem Einthoven (1924) Christiaan Eijkman (1929) Nikolaas Tinbergen (1973)...
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    the field of optical and electronic phenomena, and the physiologist Willem Einthoven for his invention of the string galvanometer, which among other things...
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    electrocardiographs, can be transmitted using telephone and wireless. Willem Einthoven, the inventor of the ECG, actually did tests with transmission of ECG...
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  • a Dutch-American physicist Peter Debye, a Dutch-American physicist Willem Einthoven, a Dutch physician, physicist J. H. van 't Hoff, a Dutch chemist Gerardus...
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  • Dutch East India Company. It included Day von Balluseck, Willem Banning, Ton Barge, Louis Einthoven, Pieter Geijl, Marinus van der Goes van Naters, Dolf Joekes...
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    Landsteiner discovered the basic A-B-AB-O blood types. 1903. Dutch physician Willem Einthoven invented the Electrocardiograph. 1905. Novocaine was first used as...
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  • September 27 – Mary Canfield Ballard, American poet (b. 1852) September 29 Willem Einthoven, Dutch inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...
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    Veltman (1999) Gerard 't Hooft (1999) Andre Geim (2010) Physiology or medicine Willem Einthoven (1924) Christiaan Eijkman (1929) Nikolaas Tinbergen (1973)...
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  • (1963) Christiaan Eijkman, physician and Nobel prize winner (1993) Willem Einthoven, physician and Nobel prize winner (1993) Urby Emanuelson, Dutch soccer...
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    Veltman (1999) Gerard 't Hooft (1999) Andre Geim (2010) Physiology or medicine Willem Einthoven (1924) Christiaan Eijkman (1929) Nikolaas Tinbergen (1973)...
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    (1853–1926) Dutch physicist and winner of the 1913 Nobel prize in Physics Willem Einthoven (1860–1927) Dutch physician and physiologist Pieter Zeeman (1865–1943)...
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