Willem Einthoven

Willem Einthoven was a male physician, physiologist, inventor, and university teacher from the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Born in Semarang in 1860, he was educated at Utrecht University under doctoral advisor Franciscus Donders. He served as a university teacher at Leiden University and worked in the field of physiology. His native language was Dutch, and he was also described by the Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary.

Einthoven received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He was a member of the Royal Society, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. His notable works include Über die Bewegungen des Pharynx, Das Saitengalvenometer und die Messung der Aktionsströme des Herzens, and Selected papers on electrocardiography of Willem Einthoven. He died in Leiden in 1927 and is buried in Oegstgeest.