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    Willem Johan "Pim" Kolff (February 14, 1911 – February 11, 2009) was a pioneer of hemodialysis, artificial heart, as well as in the entire field of artificial...
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    Willem Hendrik "Butch" (sometimes "Bill") van Breda Kolff (October 28, 1922 – August 22, 2007) was an American basketball player and coach. Butch was...
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    Kolff (also: Van Santen Kolff, Kolff van Oosterwijk and Van Breda Kolff) is the name of a Dutch patrician family originating from the provinces of Holland...
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    used in the food packaging industry such as cellophane. In the 1940s, Willem Kolff constructed the first dialyzer (artificial kidney), and successfully...
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    apparatus by Kolff in 1943 to 1945. This research showed that life could be prolonged in patients dying of kidney failure. Willem Kolff was the first...
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    successful artificial kidney was developed by Willem Kolff in the Netherlands during the early 1940s: Kolff was the first to construct a working dialyzer...
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    system which they successfully tested in animals. A Dutch doctor, Willem Johan Kolff, constructed the first working dialyzer in 1943 during the Nazi occupation...
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    membrane artificial lung was demonstrated in 1955 by the group led by Willem Kolff,[4] and in 1956 the first disposable-membrane oxygenator removed the...
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  • Luns (1911–2002) (Politician) Leontien van Moorsel (1970–) (Athlete) Willem Kolff (1911–2009) (inventor of hemodialysis) Godfried Bomans (1913–1991) (Writer)...
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  • actress and model. Keira Knightley (born 1985), English actress. Willem Johan Kolff (1911–2009; aged 97), Dutch physician. David Koresh (1959–1993; aged...
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    Bishop longer than any other person in the history of the LDS Church. Willem Johan Kolff (resident): Dutch-American inventor, pioneer of hemodialysis, artificial...
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    in a human was the Jarvik-7 in 1982, designed by a team including Willem Johan Kolff, William DeVries, Jeffrey Christopher, and Robert Jarvik. An artificial...
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  • which finances medical instrumentation research; and he funded Dr. Willem Kolff in the development of the first production portable, artificial kidney...
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  • (b. 1919) 2009 – Estelle Bennett, American singer (b. 1941) 2009 – Willem Johan Kolff, Dutch-American physician and academic (b. 1911) 2010 – Heward Grafftey...
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  • the co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; Willem Johan Kolff; and Russell M. Nelson. Biologist Ralph Vary Chamberlin, founding...
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    original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved January 4, 2020. "NIHF Inductee Willem Kolff Invented the Artificial Heart". www.invent.org. June 4, 2024. Archived...
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    scientists such as Maxwell Wintrobe, Louis Goodman, Homer R. Warner, and Willem Kolff. To this day, the school maintains a reputation for strong scientific...
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  • haemodialysis to Australia with his construction of a dialysis machine based on Willem Kolff's design and later became a pathologist. John Dique was born in 1915 in...
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    Utah at the time, a position appointed to him in 1966. He recruited Willem Kolff, the surgeon who, as a young doctor in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands...
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  • physicians. Hardy was introduced by Willem Kolff, the creator of the kidney machine, and toward the end of introduction Kolff turned to Hardy and quipped, "In...
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    politician Willem Johan Kolff (1911–2009), Dutch-American inventor of the artificial kidney Willem Kes (1856–1934), Dutch conductor and violinist Willem Kalf...
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  • Medicine, Jarvik completed two years of study, and in 1971 was hired by Willem Johan Kolff, a Dutch-born physician-inventor at the University of Utah, who produced...
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    with such pioneering doctors as Adrian Kantrowitz, Michael DeBakey and Willem Kolff, who invited Peter to spend time with him at the Cleveland Clinic. When...
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    Later that year in the Favaloro Foundation, with the collaboration with Willem Kolff in the Artificial Organs Department at the University of Utah, the first...
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    Willem Jan Pieter van der Does (20 April 1889 – 3 February 1966) was a Dutch painter, art illustrator, draftsman, and water-colorist associated with the...
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  • Yukihiko Nosé and Paul S. Malchesky, and was originally edited by Willem J. Kolff. The current editor-in-chief is Vakhtang Tchantchaleishvili. It is...
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  • Houten (1920–2002), astronomer Tom Gehrels (1925–2011), astronomer Willem Johan Kolff (1911–2009), physician and inventor Peter Debye (1884–1966), chemist...
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  • developed. Hemofiltration was regarded by Willem Kolff in a letter to Scheler as the next step since Kolff's invention of dialysis. Scheler had a lifelong...
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  • is referred to as the "father of extracorporeal blood treatment." Willem Johan Kolff constructed the first artificial kidney; however, it was not very...
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    Yuki Nose. In 1967 Kwan-Gett moved to Salt Lake City, Utah with Dr. Willem J. Kolff to establish a new Division of Artificial Organs at the University...
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