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Willem Einthoven: The Most Honorable Man
Willem Einthoven was the most honorable man and thanks to his invention on the galvanometric sequence of electrocardiograph in which helps to detect the weak electrical beat of the heart. This help people around the world are able to be treated with heart diseases. This invention gives other researcher to advance the studies on the function disease of the heart. In 1924 he was honored by a Nobel Prize in medicine. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12744012 William Harvey was born in United kingdom and studied at Canterbury and then at Caius College in Cambridge where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree than fellow his studies to study in anatomy and physiology. However, all this years of studies and diplomats gain, pushed him to the discovery

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