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Kolff, Willem J

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Personal name headingKolff, Willem J.
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Variant(s)Kolff, W. J. (Willem J.)
Kolff, Pim
Birth date1911-02-14
Death date2009-02-11
Found inArtificial organs, c1987: CIP t.p. (in honor of the 75th Birthday of Willem J. Kolff) pref. (faculty member at Univ. of Utah since 1967)
LC data base, 6/8/87 (hdg.: Kolff, W. J.; usage: W.J. Kolff)
NLM files, 6/8/87 (hdg.: Kolff, Willem J., 1912- ; usage: W.J. Kolff; Willem J. Kolff)
Wikipedia, 27 May 2008 (Dr. Willem Johan (Pim) Kolff (born February 14, 1911), a pioneer of hemodialysis and artificial organs)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology WWW Site, 27 May 2008: Inventor of the week archive (Willem Kolff, creator of the first kidney dialysis machine, was born on February 14, 1911 in Leyden, Holland)
New York times WWW site, Feb. 13, 2009 (in obituary published Feb. 12: Dr. Willem J. Kolff; b. Willem Johan Kolff, Feb. 14, 1911, Leyden; immigrated to the U.S. in 1950; d. Wednesday [Feb. 11, 2009], Newtown Square, Pa., aged 97; resourceful Dutch physician who invented the first artificial kidney in a rural hospital during World War II, using sausage casings and even orange juice cans, and went on to build the first artificial heart)