"If a man can grow a heart," Dr. Kolff always insisted, "he can build one."
科尔夫博士始终坚决认为“如果一个人能够长出心脏，他也就能够制造心脏。”。
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As a young physician at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands in 1938, Dr. Kolff watched a young man die a slow, agonizing death from temporary kidney failure.
Willem Johan Kolff was born in Leyden, the Netherlands, on Feb. 14, 1911. He received his M. D. at Leyden University in 1938 and a Ph. D. at the University of Groningen in 1946.