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...

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...

Willem Hendrik "Butch" (sometimes "Bill") van Breda Kolff (October 28, 1922 – August 22, 2007) was an American basketball player and coach. Butch was...

used in the food packaging industry such as cellophane. In the 1940s, Willem Kolff constructed the first dialyzer (artificial kidney), and successfully...

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...

system which they successfully tested in animals. A Dutch doctor, Willem Johan Kolff, constructed the first working dialyzer in 1943 during the Nazi occupation...

successful artificial kidney was developed by Willem Kolff in the Netherlands during the early 1940s: Kolff was the first to construct a working dialyzer...

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...

Luns (1911–2002) (Politician) Leontien van Moorsel (1970–) (Athlete) Willem Kolff (1911–2009) (inventor of hemodialysis) Godfried Bomans (1913–1991) (Writer)...

which finances medical instrumentation research; and he funded Dr. Willem Kolff in the development of the first production portable, artificial kidney...