Medicine: Nobel Prize

To Dr. Willcm Einthoven, physiological researcher of Leyden University, Holland, went the Nobel Prize for outstanding achievement in Medicine and Physics during 1924. He has invented a device by which the beat of the human heart may be seen, measured, photographed, diseases of the heart detected, its action studied. It was in recognition of this device that the prize was awarded. Dr. Einthoven. genial 64-year-old Dutchman, is now visiting the U. S. He is sprightly, small, with a small grey beard, small grey mustache, wears in his countenance the alert and boyish shyness...

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