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CRAIB, William Hofmeyr (1895 – 1982)

1895 – 1982

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1927 CE

#12226

A study of the electrical field surrounding active heart muscle.

At Johns Hopkins Hospital Craib evolved his fundamental theory of the doublet hypothesis which revolutionized electrocardiographic thinking. Until then, it was held that electricity in the heart differed from electric…