Einthoven

American  

[ahynt-hoh-vuhn] / ˈaɪntˌhoʊ vən /

noun

1. Willem 1860–1927, Dutch physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1924.

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Einthoven British  

/ ˈɛɪnthoːvə /

noun

1. Willem. 1860–1927, Dutch physiologist. A pioneer of electrocardiography, he was awarded the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1924

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Einthoven

To Dr. Willcm Einthoven, physiological researcher of Leyden University, Holland, went the Nobel Prize for outstanding achievement in Medicine and Physics during 1924.

From Time Magazine Archive

Willem Einthoven, 67, famed professor of heart diseases, winner of the 1924 Nobel prize for medicine; in Amsterdam, Holland.

From Time Magazine Archive

Professor Korn uses a form of the Einthoven galvanometer already described.

From Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science by Thomas W. Corbin

Back of this screen," he went on, indicating it in the corner of the room, "I have placed what is known as the string galvanometer, invented, or, perhaps better, perfected by Dr. Einthoven, of Leyden.

From Guy Garrick by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

The very elaborate and delicate electrocardiograph with the string galvanometer devised by Einthoven is used.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield