Willem Kolff and the invention of the dialysis machine
By: Kathleen Tracy
Series: Unlocking the secrets of science
Publisher: Mitchell Lane Pub.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Bear, Del
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47
ISBN-13: 9781584151357
Description: A biography of the Dutch doctor who worked to perfect a means of treating kidney failure and later helped develop the first artificial heart.
Notes: "Chronology": p. 42.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 44) and index.
Table of contents: title: Patient named Jan; title: Reluctant student; title: Change of plans; title: Surgical sausage casings; title: Success; title: New frontiers; title: Willem Kolff chronology; title: Dialysis and artificial heart timeline.