Augustus Desiré Waller

Augustus Desiré Waller ( born July 18, 1856 in Paris, † March 11, 1922 in London ) was an English physiologist.

The son of Augustus Volney Waller studied medicine in Aberdeen and Edinburgh. After receiving his doctorate in 1881 in Edinburgh, he worked at John Scott Burdon - Sanderson ( 1828-1905 ) at University College London.

Augustus Desiré Waller 1887 for the first time recorded an electrocardiogram using a capillary electrometer. His work was later continued by Willem Einthoven, which further improved the instruments.

In 1903 he became a professor of physiology at the University of London.

Works

  • An Introduction to Human Physiology, 1891
  • Eight lectures on the signs of life From Their electrical aspect. London: Murray, 1903
  • The electrical action of the human heart. London: University of London Press, 1922
  • Physician (19th century)
  • Physician ( 20th century )
  • Physiologist
  • Member of the Royal Society
  • Briton
  • Born in 1856
  • Died in 1922
  • Man
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