biography
pronunciation:
[aynthohfn]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1860–1927)
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| biography:
| Dutch physiologist, born in Semarang, Indonesia. He studied at Utrecht, and became professor of physiology at Leyden in 1886. He invented the string galvanometer for measuring the electrical rhythms of the heart (1903), and introduced the term electrocardiogram. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1924. |
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