
Willem Johan Kolff
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 16 years ago |
Date of birth | February 14,1911 |
Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
Born | Leiden |
Netherlands | |
Date of died | February 11,2009 |
Died | Newtown Square |
Pennsylvania | |
United States | |
Nationality | Dutch |
American | |
Awards | Canada Gairdner International Award |
Harvey Prize | |
Wilhelm Exner Medal | |
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award | |
Current partner | Janke Cornelia Kolff-Huidekoper |
Education | Leiden University |
University of Groningen | |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 805084 |
Willem Johan Kolff Life story
Willem Johan "Pim" Kolff was a pioneer of hemodialysis, artificial heart, as well as in the entire field of artificial organs. Willem was a member of the Kolff family, an old Dutch patrician family. He made his major discoveries in the field of dialysis for kidney failure during the Second World War.