Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Bert, Paul

French physiologist, politician, and diplomat, founder of modern aerospace medicine, whose research into the effects of air pressure on the body helped make possible the exploration of space and the ocean depths. While professor of physiology at the Sorbonne (1869 - 86), he found that the illness suffered by animals at high altitudes is caused

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