Willem Einthoven

Willem Einthoven
Willem Einthoven in 1906
Born	(1860-05-21)21 May 1860 Semarang, Dutch East Indies
Died	29 September 1927(1927-09-29) (aged 67) Leiden, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Alma mater	University of Utrecht
Known for	First practical electrocardiogram machine Clinical electrocardiography Einthoven's triangle
Awards	Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1924
Scientific career
Fields	Physiology
Institutions	University of Leiden

Willem Einthoven (21 May 1860 – 29 September 1927) was a Dutch medical doctor and physiologist. He invented the first practical electrocardiograph (ECG or EKG) in 1895 and received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1924 for it ("for the discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram").^[1]