Summary

Creator:

Lanphier, Edward H.

Abstract:

Edward Lanphier (1922-1999) was a physician and senior scientist in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Wisconsin--Madison. Lanphier wrote and spoke extensively on a variety of diving subjects, including decompression in surface-based diving, comfort in underwater exercise, animal and human respiration under increased pressures, and hyperbaric treatments. During his career, Lanphier was a member of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society. The collection contains his professional papers. Materials include correspondence, reports, committee materials, text of speeches and lectures, presentation notes, manuscript materials, research files, reprints, and grant files. Major subjects include diving, decompression, decompression sickness, diving physiology, and respiration. Materials range in date from 1876 to 1999, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1960 to 1999.

Extent:

13.5 Linear Feet (9 cartons)

Language:

English

Collection ID:

UHMS.0003

Background

Scope and Content:

Contains the professional papers of Edward Lanphier. Types of materials include floppy disks, project proposals, correspondence, reference files, meeting minutes, slides, articles, grant proposal, financial records, site visits, and reports. Materials range in date from 1876 to 1999, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1960 to 1999.

Biographical / Historical:

Edward Howell Lanphier was born in 1922 in Madison, Wisconsin, to Beatrice Howell and Ira B. Lanphier. In 1949, he received his MD from the University of Illinois School of Medicine.
Lanphier was senior scientist in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Wisconsin--Madison. He directed work under the Wisconsin Sea Grant in the 1970s, conducting some of the first controlled experimental assessments of the causes and effects of the bends and other forms of decompression sickness or illness. Lanphier wrote and spoke extensively on a variety of diving subjects, including decompression in surface-based diving, comfort in underwater exercise, animal and human respiration under increased pressures, and hyperbaric treatments. In 1977, Lanphier won the Albert H. Behnke Award for contributions to advances in undersea or hyperbaric biomedical field from the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS).
In 1978, Lanphier married Karron Baird. Lanphier died on June 6, 1999.

Acquisition Information:

Source unknown (gift, 2005)

Processing information:

Processed by Archives staff: June 2005; encoded by Emily Glenn: June 2005

Arrangement:

Organized into the following series: Papers, 1976-1999.

Physical Location:

For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Duke University Medical Center Library's online catalog.

Rules or Conventions:

DACS

Related

Related Material:

• C.J. Lambertsen Papers
• Albert R. Behnke Collection
• David A. Desautels Collection
• David E. Yount Collection
• Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Reports and Reprints
• Elizabeth Reeve Collection

Subjects

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Personal Name(s):

Lanphier, Edward H.

Corporate Name(s):

Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society

Topical Term(s):

Respiration.
Decompression Sickness.
Decompression.
Diving.
Diving--physiology.