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Willem Johan "Pim" Kolff was a pioneer of hemodialysis as well as in the field of artificial organs. Willem is 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. He migrated in 1950 to the United States, where he obtained US citizenship in 1955, and received a number of awards and widespread recognition for his work.
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February 14th, 1911 in Leiden / Died: Feb 11th, 2009 - aged 97
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2009/02/12
The celebrity has been marked as passed away
2008/06/25
New Response (Success): Sent Mr Kolff two 5X7 pictures of his invention al..
2008/04/17
New Scanned Autograph (TTM/Prob.Auth)
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