Although trained in medicine, Willem Einthoven was always very much interested in physics, and his greatest contributions to science involve the application of physical principles to the development of new instruments and techniques in physiological...

Although trained in medicine, Willem Einthoven was always interested in physics, and his greatest contributions to science involve the application of physical principles to the development of new instruments and techniques in physiological studies. One...

Willem Einthoven was born in Java, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). When he was six years old, his father, Jacob, (a physician) died and, in 1870, the widowed Louise de Vogel Einthoven returned with her six children to Utrecht, The Netherlands....

1860-1927 Dutch Physiologist Willem Einthoven was a Dutch physiologist who, in 1924, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his invention of a string galvanometer that he used to produce the electrocardiogram (EKG), a physical...

Willem Einthoven (Semarang, May 21, 1860 – Leiden, September 29, 1927) was a Dutch 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...

Abstract: Recording of the electrocardiogram by string galvanometer evolved a century ago from wide-ranging advances in physiology, physics, and engineering. Although body surface recordings had been obtained prior to the work of Willem Einthoven, his ingenuity in mathematically correcting capillary electrometer tracings and incorporating...

WILLEM MENGELBERG Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam Willem Mengelberg: Conductor Andante Great Interpreters 2966 3CDs 213' 28" 2001 marked the 50th anniversary of the death of Willem Mengelberg, which was commemorated in suitable style by the reissue of many of...