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Willem Johan Kolff was born in 1911 as the eldest son in a doctor’s family. His father, Dr Jaap Kolff, was director of the sanatorium in Beekbergen, just north of Arnhem. While strolling with his son in the neighbourhood be used to make him familiar with the responsibility which he felt as a doctor towards his patients.
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van Noordwijk, J. (2001). The Prelude to the First Dialysis in 1943. In: Dialysing for Life. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0900-3_2
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