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Willem Einthoven
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Willem Einthoven

Inventor · born May 21, 1860 · died 1927

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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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  1. ~64Received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1924

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