* Willem Einthoven ( physician, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate )

Willem Einthoven was among those who took interest in the new method.

* May 21 – Willem Einthoven, Dutch inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1927 )

* September 29 – Willem Einthoven, Dutch inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1860 )

* Willem Einthoven, 1860 – 1927, physician, physiologist.

* Willem Einthoven, ( 1860 – 1927 ), physician, Prize 1924

An initial breakthrough came when Willem Einthoven, working in Leiden, the Netherlands, used the string galvanometer he invented in 1901.

Three other professors received the Nobel Prize for their research performed at Universiteit Leiden: Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Pieter Zeeman received the Nobel Prize for their pioneering work in the field of optical and electronic phenomena, and the physiologist Willem Einthoven for his invention of the string galvanometer, which among other things, enabled the development of electrocardiography.

* 1903, electrocardiograph, by Willem Einthoven

* Willem Einthoven discovers electrocardiography ( ECG / EKG )

Willem Einthoven ( Semarang, 21 May 1860 – Leiden, 29 September 1927 ) was a Dutch doctor and physiologist.

** Medicine: Willem Einthoven

Willem Einthoven, the inventor of the ECG, actually did tests with transmission of ECG via telephone lines.

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The term was coined by the Dutch psychiatrist and writer Frederik ( Willem ) van Eeden ( 1860 – 1932 ).

* Willem Witsen ( 1860 — 1923 )

Frederik Willem van Eeden ( April 3, 1860, Haarlem – June 16, 1932, Bussum ) was a late 19th century and early 20th century Dutch writer and psychiatrist.

* 1561 – Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxony.

* Willem Egeman ( 1913 – 25 )

* 1995 – Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer ( b. 1921 )

* 1904 – Willem de Kooning, Dutch painter ( d. 1997 )

* 1907 – Willem van Otterloo, Dutch conductor and composer ( d. 1978 )

Among its founding fathers was Willem Usselincx ( 1567 – 1647 ).

Willem and Franz – Officers who arrest K. one morning but refuse to disclose the crime he is said to have committed.

* 1856 – Willem Kes, Dutch conductor ( d. 1934 )

Hilversum is also known for its architecturally important " Raadhuis " or town hall, designed by Willem Dudok ( 1884 – 1974 ).

* 1886 – Willem Drees, Dutch politician and centenarian ( d. 1988 )

* 1955 – Willem Dafoe, American actor

* 1923 – Willem Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete ( d. 2003 )

Andriessen was born in Utrecht into a musical family, the son of the composer Hendrik Andriessen ( 1892 – 1981 ), brother of composers Jurriaan Andriessen ( 1925 – 1996 ) and Caecilia Andriessen ( 1931 -), and nephew of Willem Andriessen ( 1887 – 1964 ).

* 1958 – Willem Holleeder, Dutch criminal

* 1647 – Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City.

* 1872 – Willem de Sitter, Dutch scientist ( d. 1934 )

* 1882 – Willem Elsschot, Flemish writer ( d. 1960 )

* 1815 – Prince Willem proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.

* 1936 – Frederik Willem de Klerk, South African politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

* 1937 – Willem Duyn, Dutch musician ( Mouth & MacNeal ) ( d. 2004 )

* 1910 – Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist ( d. 1944 )

* Willem van Genk ( 1927 – 2005 ) is the best known Dutch representative of outsider art.

He received his Ph. D. in 1927 at Leiden University under Willem de Sitter and then went to Yale University.

It was founded in 1650 by the testament of Willem van Heythuijsen ( sometimes spelled Heythuysen ) on the site of his summer residence outside the city walls of Haarlem on land that was considered Heemstede property until it was annexed in 1927.