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Physician and inventor; builder of the first practical artificial kidney
Netherlands · 1911–2009
Dutch physician who built the first practical dialysis machine in occupied Kampen during the Second World War, then moved to the United States, where he worked on the heart-lung machine and the artificial heart at the Cleveland Clinic and the University of Utah.
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By the way, the guys with very high grades are not necessarily the people that are the most successful in later life. They may be the ones that can regurgitate gracefully, and they get very high grades. But if the guys that have to work for it and do not have such good grades can do something extra, and prove that they can perform, they may have a chance.
Recorded Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement source ↗
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