Einthoven, Willem

HJ Power, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at the University College London, UK

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002538

1860–1927 Dutch physiologist, and inventor of the electrocardiograph.

Keywords: physiology; galvanometer; electrocardiograph; electrocardiogram; cardiology

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Further Reading
	book Gillispie CC (ed.) (1981) Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Scribner.
	book Fox DM, Meldrum M and Rezak I (1990) Nobel Laureates in Medicine or Physiology: a Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland.
	book Snellen HA (1977) Life and Work of Willem Einthoven (1860–1927). Leiden: Leiden University Press.
	book Snellen HA (1983) Two Pioneers of Electrocardiology: The Correspondence between Einthoven and Lewis from 1908–1926. Rotterdam: Donker Academic Publications.