Bridging cardiovascular physics, physiology, and clinical practice: Karel H. Wesseling, pioneer of continuous noninvasive hemodynamic monitoring

karel hendrik wesseling (Fig. 11), emeritus professor of biomedical instrumentation, was born in The Hague, The Netherlands, on April 23, 1935. He studied electrical engineering, in his words, from 1950 on, and since 1953 at the Delft University of Technology (DUT) from which he graduated with