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Wilbur Olin Atwater

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  • American chemist
  • father of modern nutrition research
  • system for determining caloric values in 1896
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John Scott Haldane

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  • Scottish physiologist
  • respiratory physiology experiments on himself
  • improved safety/morbidity in high risk situations
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A. V. Hill

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  • 1922 Nobel Prize winner in physiology sports med for discovery relating to the production of heat in muscle
  • distance running performance
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Nathan Kuntz

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  • many fields such as metabolism, nutrition, respiration, blood gases, exercise, and high altitude
  • invented Kuntz-Geppert respiratory apparatus and Laufband (treadmil)
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Otto Meyerhof

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  • 1922 Nobel Prize winner in physiology or medicine for discovery of relationship between consumption of O2 and metabolism of lactic acid in muscle
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Bruno Balke

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  • German physiologist
  • impact of extreme environment on factors of body
  • recruited by Air Force
  • helped with in-flight stress and deep space travel
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Paul Bert

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  • father of aviation medicine
  • effects of air pressure on the body
  • made space and deep-sea diving possible
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August Krogh

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  • 1920 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or medicine for capillary motor regulating mechanism
  • made a lot of instrumentation
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Russel Henry Chittenden

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  • 144 scientific papers
  • protein requirements
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Kuntz-Geppert Respiratory Apparatus

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  • collect expired (exhaled) air
  • measures rate of uptake of O2 and output of CO2
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First Laufband

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  • 1889 by Nathan Kuntz
  • added x-ray to determine changes in heart volume during exercise
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World’s First Altitude Simulator

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  • 1877 by Paul Bert
  • double cylinder vacuum chamber to create vacuum equal to 20,000 ft of altitude
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Douglas Bags

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  • 1885
  • used to collect and record samples of exhaled air
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Gatorade Sports Science Institute

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  • 1985
  • studies effects of nutrition on human body before, during, and after exercise
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Cooper Institute

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-1970 by “father of aerobics”
- benefits of regular activity
- links between fitness and prevention of chronic disease
- life-long health and wellness

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Harvard Fatigue Laboratory

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  • one of first exercise labs in US
  • exercise in extreme environments
  • lasted only 20 years
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J. S. Haldane

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  • “father of oxygen therapy”
  • asphyxia in cole miners, sweating and ways to treat heat stroke, sickness in divers, response at high altitudes
  • tested on himself
  • designed first gas mask and oxygen therapy equipment used to treat victims in WWI

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