Earl Wood
Earl H. Wood | |
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Earl Wood in his office at the Mayo Clinic with an inset photo from 1946 showing him in Heidelberg, as part of Operation Paperclip, seeking to recruit German scientists to work in the United States. | |
| Born | January 1, 1912 |
| Died | March 18, 2009 (aged 97) |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Macalester College University of Minnesota |
| Known for | Invention of the G-suit, Development of cardiac catheterization into a clinical service, Invention of the ear oximeter, Co-inventor of the first dynamic (high speed) volumetric x-ray computed tomography system |
| Awards | Presidential Certificate of Merit from Harry Truman-1947; Macalester College honorary degree of D.Sc.-1950; American Heart Association's "Career Investigator" 1962; Distinguished Citizen Award-1974; honorary member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences-1977; honorary member American College of Cardiology - 1978; honorary degree, doctor of medicine, from the University of Bern, Switzerland - 1978; Humboldt Prize for Senior U.S. Scientists by the government of West Germany - 1979; John Phillips Memorial Award of the American College of Physicians - 1979; President of the American Physiological Society - 1980-81; President of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) - 1981-82; John Phillips Memorial Award of the American College of Physicians 1982; Aerospace Medical Association's Lyster Award for outstanding achievement in Aerospace medicine 1983; Ray G. Daggs Award for his distinguished long-term service to the science of physiology and, in particular, to the American Physiological Society - 1995; Street in Rheinfelden, Germany dedicated as "Earl H. Wood Strasse" - 2002. |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cardiovascular, Respiratory, Aerospace Medicine and Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Dynamics |
| Institutions | Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota |
| Thesis | The Distribution of Electrolytes and Water Between Cardiac Muscle and Blood Serum with Special Reference to the Effects of Digitalis (1942) |
Earl Howard Wood (January 1, 1912 – March 18, 2009) was an American cardiopulmonary physiologist who helped invent the G-suit, brought heart catheterization into a clinical reality and introduced dynamic volumetric computed tomography for the study of the heart and lungs.