title: "Inventions can't wait": a tribute to Willem Johan Kolff.
authors: BioSciences, Fresenius Medical Care, Bad Homburg, Germany.
authors: Joerg
authors: J
authors: Vienken
authors: Horst
authors: H
authors: Klinkmann
authors: Gerhard
authors: G
authors: Rakhorst
mesh_terms: D001187:Artificial Organs / Q000266:history*; D001698:Biomedical Engineering / Q000266:history; D006354:Heart, Artificial / Q000266:history; D006355:Heart-Lung Machine / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000628:therapy; D007688:Kidneys, Artificial / Q000266:history; D009426:Netherlands; D010106:Oxygenators / Q000266:history; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000266:history* / Q000295:instrumentation; D014481:United States