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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 217,569 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Willem Johan Kolff is the 489th most popular physician (down from 453rd in 2019), the 611th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 543rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Dutch Physician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Willem Johan Kolff ranks 489 out of 726. Before him are Rutherford Alcock, Wim Eijk, Karin Büttner-Janz, Carl Lange, Kyusaku Ogino, and William Turner. After him are Guy Patin, Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Zofia Zamenhof, James Paget, Sergey Botkin, and George Huntington.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Willem Johan Kolff ranks 187. Before him are Butterfly McQueen, Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu, Nicolae Kovács, Juan Carlos Zabala, Maurice Schumann, and André Navarra. After him are Mahmoud Taleghani, Ralph Kirkpatrick, Mutara III Rudahigwa, Gavriil Kachalin, Paul Pietsch, and Gustave Gilbert. Among people deceased in 2009, Willem Johan Kolff ranks 188. Before him are Hans Klenk, Riccardo Cassin, Péter Bacsó, Edward Woodward, Gene Barry, and Henry Gibson. After him are Shi Pei Pu, Charlie Mariano, Peter Shirayanagi, Paul Naschy, Otto Graf Lambsdorff, and Lino Aldani.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Willem Johan Kolff ranks 611 out of 1,646. Before him are Pim Doesburg (1943), Björn Kuipers (1973), Wim Eijk (1953), Coen Moulijn (1937), Willeke Alberti (1945), and Johannes Burman (1707). After him are Johannes Meursius (1579), Arend Heyting (1898), Willem Roelofs (1822), Diederik Korteweg (1848), Victor Marijnen (1917), and Ibrahim Afellay (1986).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Netherlands

Among physicians born in Netherlands, Willem Johan Kolff ranks 15. Before him are Franciscus Donders (1818), Gerard van Swieten (1700), Titus Brandsma (1881), Petrus Camper (1722), Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde (1873), and Wim Eijk (1953). After him are Herman Snellen (1834), Joep Lange (1954), and Willem Piso (1611).

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