| Erik Adolf von Willebrand (www.whonamedit.com) (755 words) |
 | Erik Adolf von Willebrand was born in the port city Vaasa, the son of the district engineer Fredrik Magnus von Willebrand and his wife Signe Estlander. |
| From 1908 until his retirement in 1935 von Willebrand was a member of the department of medicine at the Deaconess Institute, where he was physician-in-chief between 1922 and 1931. |
| Jürgens concluded that the bleeding tendency in von Willebrands patients was caused by a disturbed function of thrombocytes, a view that proved to be wrong. |
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