In his later years, Kolff worked on other artificial organs, including an eye and an ear, but those proved to be much more difficult organs to replicate. Willem Johan Kolff was born in Leiden ...

“It’s now been proven that the artificial kidney can save a life,” Kolff concluded ruefully. “But it’s not been proven that it’s of any real use to society.” Willem Johan ...

Willem Johan Kolff was born on Valentine’s Day, 1911, in Leiden. He was the oldest of five children. His father was a doctor who operated a sanitarium. At the time, Dutch children attended ...

During the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II, biomedical engineer Willem Johan Kolff invented the hemodialysis machine and forever changed the way we treat kidney failure.

PHILADELPHIA — Dr. Willem Johan Kolff, a pioneer in the fields of kidney dialysis and artificial organs, has died. He was 97. Kolff's son Jack says he died of natural causes Wednesday at a ...

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Dr. Willem Johan Kolff, a former University of Utah professor and pioneer in the fields of kidney dialysis and artificial organs, has died at the age of 97. Kolff's son Jack ...

PHILADELPHIA — Dr. Willem Johan Kolff, a pioneer in the fields of kidney dialysis and artificial organs, died Wednesday. He was 97. Kolff’s son Jack says he died of natural causes at a ...

Willem Kolff, who died on February 11 aged 97, was one of the great creative geniuses of 20th century medicine, responsible for the invention of the kidney dialysis machine and instrumental in ...

In 1971, after my first two years at medical school, Dr. Willem Kolff, who died Feb. 11 at 97, hired me to work on the artificial-heart project at the University of Utah. On my first day ...