Willem Johan Pim Kolff 1 Willem Johan Pim

Willem Johan "Pim" Kolff 1 Willem Johan "Pim" Kolff (February 14, 1911 – February 11, 2009) was a pioneer of hemodialysis as well as in the field of artificial organs. Willem is a member of the Kolff family, an old Dutch patrician family. He made his major discoveries in the field of dialysis for kidney failure during the Second World War. Kolff is considered to be the Father of Artificial Organs, and is regarded as one of the most important physicians of the 20 th century

Quote of the Unit Kidney transplants seem so routine now. But the first one was like Lindbergh's flight across the ocean. Joseph Edward Murray (April 1, 1919 – November 26, 2012) was an American plastic surgeon who performed the first successful human kidney transplant on identical twins Richard and Ronald Herrick on December 23, 1954. 2

William Harvey (1578 – 1657) was an English doctor He was the first person to describe systemic circulation and properties of the blood being pumped to the brain and body by the heart 3

Robert Boyle 4 • Robert Boyle FRS (1627 – 1691) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist. • Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist. • He is best known for Boyle's law, which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas, if the temperature is kept constant within a closed system

Bernardo Alberto Houssay 5 • Bernardo Alberto Houssay (April 10, 1887 – September 21, 1971) was an Argentine physiologist who, in 1947, received one half Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the role played by pituitary hormones in regulating the amount of blood sugar (glucose) in animals. • He is the first Argentine and Latin American Nobel laureate in the sciences.