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ALBERT L. BABB
ALBERT L. BABB
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In 1952 he was appointed assistant professor of chemical engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle with the task of developing a Nuclear Engineering Department. His thesis work had involved mass transfer, and he took summer jobs with General Electric in Richland, Washington (working on separating plutonium and uranium from fission products)
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Instead of the previously used sodium bicarbonate, the dialysate was sodium acetate and the device could provide dialysate to five bedside stations simultaneously. Later it was learned that using sodium bicarbonate would have created severe contamination problems in the home dialysis unit that were not a concern with sodium acetate.
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By November 1964, hemodialysis had been performed in 40 homes without any significant incidents. The optimization work suggested that short, multiple parallel blood paths with a thickness of about 200 micrometers were best, which eventually led to disposable hollow fiber dialyzers.
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He held 21 patents and authored or coauthored 170 journal publications. A registered chemical and nuclear engineer, he was a member of 15 professional and scholarly societies, served on countless boards nationwide, and consulted with numerous companies, largely in nuclear engineering and for the Public Health Service and medical device firms.
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2014. A History of Northwest Kidney Centers, Chapter 20: Professor Albert Leslie "Les" Babb and the Development of New Dialysis Technology (pp.
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