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Willem Johan Kolff
Dutch medical researcher.
Born February 14th, 1911 in Leiden. [ref]
Died February 11th, 2009 at 97 years old in Delaware County. [ref]
Occupations
internist, inventor, physician, rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, resistance fighter, university teacher
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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. Leo Tolstoy