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PROF. WILLEM EINTHOVEN, whose death on Sept 28 at the age of sixty-eight years has been announced, was one of the foremost of modern physiologists. For nearly forty-two years he has been professor of physiology at Leyden, Holland, being invited to succeed Heynsius in November 1885, and actually taking up his duties, after passing his final State examination in medicine, on Feb. 24, 1886. For the first twenty years of his office the chair of physiology was combined with that of histology.
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H., A. Prof. W. Einthoven, for. Mem. R.S. Nature 120, 591–592 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120591a0
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