Nausea, vomiting, and edema would follow quickly; the inevitable death would be slow and gruesome, as a young Dr. Willem Kolff would learn first hand. Dr. Kolff and his wife Janke in Nazi-occupied ...

Head and shoulders above other kidney makers is tall, tart Willem Johan Kolff, 48, of the Cleveland Clinic. Physician Kolff made his gadgeteering breakthrough in his native Netherlands during the ...