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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Willem Einthoven has received more than 458,024 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Willem Einthoven is the 28th most popular physician (up from 33rd 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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  • 70

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Willem Einthoven ranks 28 out of 502Before him are Jacques Rogge, Rudolf Virchow, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, Polycarp, Camillo Golgi, and Paul Ehrlich. After him are Alexis Carrel, Georgius Agricola, Al-Zahrawi, Emil von Behring, António Egas Moniz, and Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Willem Einthoven ranks 9Before him are Theodor Herzl, Kanō Jigorō, Alphonse Mucha, Klara Hitler, Eduard Buchner, and Raymond Poincaré. After him are Isaac Albéniz, Herman Hollerith, William Jennings Bryan, James Ensor, Niels Ryberg Finsen, and J. M. Barrie. Among people deceased in 1927, Willem Einthoven ranks 3Before him are Svante Arrhenius and Isadora Duncan. After him are Ferdinand I of Romania, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Juan Gris, Carlota of Mexico, Albrecht Kossel, Gaston Leroux, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Andranik, and Hugo Ball.

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In Indonesia

Among people born in Indonesia, Willem Einthoven ranks 3 out of 126Before him are Sukarno (1901) and Suharto (1921). After him are B. J. Habibie (1936), Joko Widodo (1961), Megawati Sukarnoputri (1947), Abdurrahman Wahid (1940), Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (1949), Anthony Fokker (1890), Gajah Mada (1290), Mohammad Hatta (1902), and Dharmakirti (700).

Among PHYSICIANS In Indonesia

Among physicians born in Indonesia, Willem Einthoven ranks 1