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Willem Johan Kolff

1911 - 2009

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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 organs. Willem was 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Willem Johan Kolff has received more than 203,703 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Willem Johan Kolff is the 454th most popular physician (down from 440th in 2019), the 544th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 566th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Dutch Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Willem Johan Kolff ranks 454 out of 502Before him are James Young Simpson, John Crawfurd, Aleksandr Bogomolets, Kazimierz Bein, Hulusi Behçet, and Erik Adolf von Willebrand. After him are James Paget, Ennio Antonelli, Giovanni Battista Grassi, Heinrich Rudolf Schinz, Louis-Antoine Ranvier, and Henri Dutrochet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Willem Johan Kolff ranks 175Before him are Rafael Arnaiz Barón, Broderick Crawford, Robert Marchand, Big Joe Turner, Lee Falk, and Viktor Nekrasov. After him are Amir Hamzah, Roy Rogers, Floyd Council, Nagarjun, Xiao Hong, and Mutara III Rudahigwa. Among people deceased in 2009, Willem Johan Kolff ranks 171Before him are Otto Graf Lambsdorff, Natalya Estemirova, Peter Shirayanagi, Venetia Burney, Janet Jagan, and Zequinha. After him are Edward Woodward, Jack Kramer, Lis Hartel, Henri Pousseur, Horst Szymaniak, and Clodovil Hernandes.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Willem Johan Kolff ranks 544 out of 1,427Before him are Theo de Jong (1947), Jan Wolkers (1925), Peter Aerts (1970), Björn Kuipers (1973), Bertus Aafjes (1914), and Richard Witschge (1969). After him are George Knobel (1922), Hakim Ziyech (1993), Derek de Lint (1950), Michael van Langren (1598), Claes Jansz. Visscher (1587), and Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy (1885).

Among PHYSICIANS In Netherlands

Among physicians born in Netherlands, Willem Johan Kolff ranks 15Before him are Franciscus Donders (1818), Aletta Jacobs (1854), Titus Brandsma (1881), Petrus Camper (1722), Herman Snellen (1834), and Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde (1873). After him are Joep Lange (1954) and Wim Eijk (1953).