Wilhelm His Jr. (29 December 1863 – 10 November 1934) was a
Swiss cardiologist and
anatomist, son of
Wilhelm His Sr.
In 1893, His discovered the
bundle of His, the collection of specialized cardiac muscle cells in the
heart
The heart is a muscular Organ (biology), organ found in humans and other animals. This organ pumps blood through the blood vessels. The heart and blood vessels together make the circulatory system. The pumped blood carries oxygen and nutrie ...
that transmits electrical impulses and helps synchronize contraction of the
cardiac muscles. Later in life, as a professor of medicine at the
University of Berlin, he was one of the first to recognize that "the heartbeat has its origin in the individual cells of heart muscle."
Werner–His disease (or
trench fever) was also named after him.
Angle of His (or
incisura cardiaca) was posthumously named after him by
Daniel John Cunningham in 1906.
Works
* ''Die Front der Ärzte'' . Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld
.a.193
Digital editionby the
University and State Library Düsseldorf
References
External links
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1863 births
1934 deaths
German cardiologists
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