1. Willem Einthoven was a Dutch medical doctor and physiologist.
16 Facts About Willem Einthoven
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Willem Einthoven invented the first practical electrocardiograph in 1895 and received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1924 for it.
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Willem Einthoven was born in Semarang on Java in the Dutch East Indies, the son of Louise Marie Mathilde Caroline de Vogel and Jacob Einthoven.
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Willem Einthoven's father, a doctor, died when Willem was a child.
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Willem Einthoven's mother returned to the Netherlands with her children in 1870 and settled in Utrecht.
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Willem Einthoven's father was of Jewish and Dutch descent, and his mother's ancestry was Dutch and Swiss.
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In 1885, Einthoven received a medical degree from the University of Utrecht.
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Willem Einthoven became a professor at the University of Leiden in 1886.
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Willem Einthoven married his first cousin Frederique Jeanne Louise de Vogel and supported her brother Willem through school at Leiden.
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Willem Einthoven died in Leiden in the Netherlands and is buried in the graveyard of the Reformed "Green Church" at 6 Haarlemmerstraatweg in Oegstgeest.
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Later in life, Einthoven turned his attention to the study of acoustics, particularly heart sounds which he researched with Dr P Battaerd.
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In 1924, Willem Einthoven was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for inventing the first practical system of electrocardiography used in medical diagnosis.
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Willem Einthoven was linked and still on the list of possible suspects to have been the notorious Jack the Ripper.
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Willem Einthoven moved to this area to help the influx of Jewish refugees who did not trust gentile doctors in the Whitechapel Parish area of East End of London.
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Willem Einthoven was conducting research as a young professor when the University of Leiden paid for him to conduct his research in London starting in January 1888 and ended abruptly in March 1891.
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Willem Einthoven died before any charges could be brought against him.