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Willem Einthoven

1860 - 1927

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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"). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Willem Einthoven is the 32nd most popular physician (down from 29th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Indonesia and the most popular Indonesian Physician.

Willem Einthoven is most famous for the invention of the electrocardiograph, which records the electrical activity of the heart.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Willem Einthoven ranks 32 out of 726. Before him are Allvar Gullstrand, Al-Zahrawi, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, John Snow, Alois Alzheimer, and Christiaan Eijkman. After him are Qa'a, Li Ching-Yuen, Rudolf Virchow, Camillo Golgi, Paul Ehrlich, and James Black.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Willem Einthoven ranks 8. Before him are Anton Chekhov, Alphonse Mucha, Klara Hitler, Theodor Herzl, Eduard Buchner, and Raymond Poincaré. After him are Isaac Albéniz, William Jennings Bryan, Niels Ryberg Finsen, Kanō Jigorō, Herman Hollerith, and James Ensor. Among people deceased in 1927, Willem Einthoven ranks 5. Before him are Svante Arrhenius, Isadora Duncan, Carlota of Mexico, and Ferdinand I of Romania. After him are Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Juan Gris, Albrecht Kossel, Gaston Leroux, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Hugo Ball, and Andranik.

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In Indonesia

Among people born in Indonesia, Willem Einthoven ranks 3 out of 158. Before him are Sukarno (1901), and Suharto (1921). After him are Abdurrahman Wahid (1940), Megawati Sukarnoputri (1947), Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (1949), Joko Widodo (1961), B. J. Habibie (1936), Prabowo Subianto (1951), Anthony Fokker (1890), Laura Gemser (1950), and Mohammad Hatta (1902).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Indonesia

Among physicians born in Indonesia, Willem Einthoven ranks 1. 

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