Willem Einthoven, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Willem Einthoven

Dutch physiologist

Date of Birth: 21-May-1860

Place of Birth: Semarang, Indonesia

Date of Death: 29-Sep-1927

Profession: physician, professor, inventor, university teacher, physiologist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Willem Einthoven (21 May 1860 – 29 September 1927) was a Dutch physician and physiologist.
He invented the first practical electrocardiogram (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").