| Willem Kolff (Guardian Unlimited) |
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It was in 1943, in Nazi-occupied Holland, that Willem "Pim" Kolff, who has died aged 97, put together the first version of what he preferred to call an artificial kidney, but which the world came to know as the kidney dialysis machine. Later, in the US, Kolff pioneered the artificial heart and the membrane oxygenator for bypass surgery. But in 1943 he was a member of the resistance, ... |