Cardiology - Cardiologists

Cardiologists

• Robert Atkins (1930–2003), known for the Atkins diet
• Eugene Braunwald (born 1929), editor of Braunwald's Heart Disease and 1000+ publications
• Willem Einthoven (1860–1927), a physiologist who built the first practical ECG and won the 1924 Nobel prize in medicine
• Andreas Gruentzig (1939–1985), first developed balloon angioplasty
• Samuel A. Levine (1891–1966), recognized the sign known as Levine's sign as well as the current grading of the intensity of heart murmurs, known as the Levine scale
• Henry Marriott (1917–2007), ECG interpretation and Marriott's Practical Electrocardiography
• John Parkinson (1885–1976), known for Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome
• Helen B. Taussig (1898–1986), founder of pediatric cardiology and extensively worked on blue baby syndrome
• Paul Dudley White (1886–1973), known for Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome
• Louis Wolff (1898–1972), known for Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome