Willem Einthoven - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1924
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Willem Einthoven

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1924
for his discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram
Citizenship
Kingdom of the Netherlands Kingdom of the Netherlands
Languages
Dutch
date of birth
5/21/1860
place of birth
Semarang
date of death
9/29/1927
place of death
Leiden
Lived
67 years
employer
  • Leiden University
    • start time: 1886
    • end time: 9/28/1927
position held
  • rector magnificus of Leiden University
    • start time: 1905
    • end time: 1906
member of
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 4/29/1926
  • Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
occupation
  • university teacher
  • inventor
  • physiologist
  • physician
field of work
  • physiology
educated at
  • Utrecht University
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