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Start Over Collection C. J. Lambertsen Papers, 1930-2004

Digital Files, undated

Contains digital files from the following accessions: Accession A2012.012. Includes data files from a database, research data, files that describe how different software programs work, and 11 DAT files that contain numerical data. The original files are undated, but materials were transferred to the Archives in 2012 after Lambertsen's death in 2011.

  2. C. J. Lambertsen Papers, 1930-2004

Accession A2012.012, undated

The material contained in this series consists of data files from a database, research data, and files that describe how different software programs work. These files can be opened using Notepad or Wordpad. Also included are 11 DAT files that contain numerical data. There are five folders listed on the published finding aid listed with NMRI in the folder title; these files could relate to these folders. The original files are undated, but materials were transferred to the Archives in 2012 after Lambertsen's death in 2011.

  2. C. J. Lambertsen Papers, 1930-2004
  3. Digital Files, undated

C. J. Lambertsen Papers, 1930-2004 262.50 Linear Feet (167 cartons, 21 flat boxes, 3 card boxes) and 1.89 MB

Christian James (C. J.) Lambertsen (1917-2011) worked as a professor of pharmacology, director of the Institute for Environmental Medicine, and the founding director of the Environmental Biomedical Stress Data Center in 1985 at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine. He designed the Lambertsen Amphibious Respiratory Unit (LARU), which was the first widely used, closed-circuit Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (SCUBA) in the United States. Types of materials include correspondence, reports, photographs, audio material, slides, lab books, lab data, experimental measures and procedures, diagrams, graphs, articles, manuscript drafts, grant proposals, newspaper clippings, and notes. Primary subjects include decompression, oxygenation, diving, decompression sickness, diving physiology, and underwater breathing apparatus. Materials range in date from 1930 to 2004.