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Willem Einthoven

 

Willem Einthoven

Willem Einthoven (May 21, 1860 - September 28, 1927) invented the electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) in 1903 and received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1924 for it.

He was born in Semarang on Java in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) and died in Leiden in the Netherlands.



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