biography
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Kolff, Willem (Johan)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1911– )
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| biography:
| Physician, the developer of the artificial kidney, born in Leyden, W Netherlands. He studied at Leyden and Groningen universities, constructed his first rotating drum artificial kidney in war-time Holland, and treated his first patient with it in 1943. Since 1950, when he moved to the USA, he has worked primarily at the Cleveland Clinic and Utah University, developing the artificial kidney further. He was also involved in research on the heart-lung machine used during open-heart surgery. |
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