Willem Einthoven

Also known as W. Einthoven

Dutch physiologist

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Willem Einthoven was a Dutch physiologist who made important contributions to medical science. His work matters because it helped advance the field of physiology and our understanding of how the human body works.

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Vinony catalogs Willem Einthoven in its Nobel Prize in Medicine collection (233 entries). It also appears in National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Within Vinony's link graph, Willem Einthoven is referenced by 324 other articles, and connects out to Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, electrocardiography and Netherlands.

Vinony files it under 1860 births, 1927 deaths and 19th-century Dutch inventors.

Its subject is documented across 75 Wikipedia language editions.

Person · Open Library

Born: 1860
Died: 1927
Works: 6

Top works

Über die Bewegungen des Pharynx
Das Saitengalvenometer und die Messung der Aktionsströme des Herzens
Stereoscopie door kleurverschil
"On the theory of Lippmann's capillary electrometer"
Selected papers on electrocardiography of Willem Einthoven

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Type: Person
Country: BE
Active from: 1940-02-09

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
· 2016 · cited 14,602x
Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,640x
Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls
· 2007 · cited 7,929x
The Effect of Spironolactone on Morbidity and Mortality in Patients with Severe Heart Failure
· 1999 · cited 7,589x
Extracellular vesicles: Exosomes, microvesicles, and friends
· 2013 · cited 7,268x

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1924
“for his discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram”

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Wikidata facts

Image: Portrait of W. (Willem) Einthoven, professor of Physiology and Histology at Leiden University Icones 332.tiff

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date of birth: 1860-05-21
Commons category: Willem Einthoven
name in native language: Willem Einthoven
date of death: 1927-09-29
P8168: Arab al-'Arida

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Encyclopedic overview

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").

Early life and education

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