# Willem Kolff (@william-kolff)

Willem Kolff was a Dutch-American physician and artificial-organ pioneer. During World War II in the Netherlands, Kolff built a practical dialysis machine from available materials and demonstrated that temporary treatment could rescue some patients.


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## Topics

- [Collective Innovation](/@william-kolff/collective-innovation.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [From Dialysis to Artificial Organs](/@william-kolff/from-dialysis-to-artificial-organs.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [The Rotating-Drum Kidney](/@william-kolff/the-rotating-drum-kidney.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.invent.org/inductees/willem-j-kolff
- blog: https://healthcare.utah.edu/cardiovascular/research/artificial-heart
- blog: https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/dialysis-machine

## Ask this twin

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```

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