Breathing on the Roof of the World Memoir of a Respiratory Physiologist

This book is an informal autobiography by John West MD PhD. He obtained his medical degree in Adelaide, Australia and then spent 15 years mainly at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital in London where he, with others, used radioactive oxygen-15 to make the first description of...

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Autor principal: West, John B. (-)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York 2017.
Colección:Springer Biographies ;
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Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • - Early Days, 1928-1945
  • Adelaide University and Medical Residency, 1946-1953
  • London and Llandough, 1953-1956.-Postgraduate Medical School, 1956-1960
  • Silver Hut Expedition, 1960-1961
  • University of Buffalo and the Postgraduate Medical School, 1961-1967
  • Palo Alto and the NASA Ames Research Center, 1967-1968
  • University of California, San Diego, 1969-1981
  • American Medical Research Expedition to Everest, 1981
  • Studies on astronauts in space
  • Other research projects
  • Comments on scientific achievements.