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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").
The electrocardiograph was impractical to use until Willem Einthoven, a Dutch physiologist, innovated the use of the string galvanometer for cardiac signal amplification. [2] Significant improvements in amplifier technologies led to the usage of smaller electrodes that were more easily attached to body parts. [ 1 ]
Hi all, Willem Einthoven is credited with inventing String Galvanometer, but this is right way to say it: In 1895 Dutch Physiologist, Willem Einthoven, used a crude electrical sensing apparatus to establish that the beating heart produced four distinct signals, each one corresponding to a different ventricle.
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Graphical representation of Einthoven's triangle. Einthoven's triangle is an imaginary formation of three limb leads in a triangle used in the electrocardiography, formed by the two shoulders and the pubis. [1] The shape forms an inverted equilateral triangle with the heart at the center. It is named after Willem Einthoven, who theorized its ...
Willem Einthoven (1860–1927) Netherlands "for the discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram" [29] 1925 Not awarded: 1926 Johannes Fibiger (1867–1928) Denmark "for his discovery of the Spiroptera carcinoma" [10] 1927 Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857–1940) Austria
Alexander Filippovich Samoylov (7 April 1867 – 22 July 1930) was a Russian physiologist and pioneer of electrophysiology and electrocardiography who applied techniques of using the ECG for diagnostic purposes. He served as a professor at Kazan University from 1903 until his death.
[4] Einthoven developed a sensitive form of string galvanomter that allowed photographic recording of the impulses associated with the heartbeat. He was a leader in applying the string galvanometer to physiology and medicine, leading to today's electrocardiography. [5] Einthoven was awarded the 1924 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine for his ...