Willem Kolff

a painting of Willem Kolff

Hi I’m going to tell you about Willem Kolff he is a famous scientist he invented the Hart-lung machine and the artificial kidney and even the Artificial Hart.
He was born in Leiden on a hotel room on 14 February 1911 he lived in a docters family his father was a doctor and his granddad to.

In the thirty's he studied medicine at Leiden what’s now still a famous university.
In 1937 he graduated and from now on he was a doctor, at first he was assistant with a Jewish doctor called Leo Polak Daniels in Groningen, willem kolff was angry that people with kidney problems where domed to die cause there organs just weren’t

good enough.
when in may 1940 the war brakes out professor Leo Polak Daniels commit suicide and what Willem Kolff made very confused.
he leaves the hospital in Groningen and went back to kampen where he lived a long part of his live and where he carried on his investigation.
In the war he even helped the resistance and he took care of wounded people in war.
At the end off 1942 the artificial kidney is finished and he started to test it on patients with the Nier problem, and on 17 march in midnight he tried it on a patient and it was the first time it worked so that was a great succes in his career.

Willem Kolff with his artificial Hart

The Hart-lung machine
When the war was over Willem Kolff started to invent a Hart-lung machine what takes the job of the hart and lungs over when there is a surgery, but in Holland were not the needs to make it that why he emigrated to the united states of America with his family in 1950.
in 1956 the first Hart-lung machine is available to buy made by Willem Kolff.

The Artificial Hart
in 1956 the same year he had the Hart-lung machine finished he started to investigate the possibilities to make a artificial hart.
in 1967 Willem Wolff was promoted to be professor at Salt lake city there he makes a laboratory what is specialized in art organs.
in 1981 the first art hart was implanted what every country in the world was interest, after 112 days the dentist Barney Clark from Seattle it was the first man who got the Artificial Hart , he died from a Pneumonia.
this was my story about Willem Kolff .

http://www.willemkolffstichting.nl/ne/index.php?id=5

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Kolff