This is a listing of researchers who have made discoveries or inventions relating to the science and technology of underwater diving. Divers who have become notable due to their exploits are not listed here, unless they have published research findings or invented an important item of diving related equipment. For these, see Outline of underwater divers.
Researchers and inventors of diving technology
(1910-1992) (1799-1874) Atmospheric diving suit. (1945- ) Co-inventor of the twin hose open circuit demand scuba regulator (AquaLung) (1870–1965) (1796-1848) (1800-1884) (1888-1967?) (1837-1883) (1920-2005) (1914-2006) (1851-1933) Early working rebreather (1900-1979) (1947- ) Dry suit buoyancy controls Early diving suit (1917-2011) Early oxygen rebreather (SCUBA) (1885-1963) (1675-1759) Diving suit "Hogarthian" rig (1862-1933) (1941-2023) (1896-1978) Atmospheric diving suits (1884-1962)
- Invented the neck dam for diving helmets (1926-1996) (1924-2009) Buoyancy compensator developments (1950-2006) (1788-1872) (1909-1941) (1801-1867)
Researchers in diving medicine and physiology, including decompression theory
B
– Italian decompression researcher.
(6 Jul 1935 – 4 May 2002) – USAF decompression researcher
(1903-1992) (12 June 1931 – 9 August 2022)
(1833-1886)
– (1915-1983)
– Decompression research.
Relation between pressure and volume in a gas, and the effects of low ambient pressure on animals. (24 January 1941 – 5 April 2022)Lang M. Crossings (Obituary) Dr. Alf O. Brubakk. Undersea Hyperb Med. 2022 Third-Quarter;49(3):393-394. PMID 36001573. , (1837-1904), Hypothesis that blood gases form bubbles during decompression.
Bühlmann decompression algorithm
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D
– US Navy decompression researcher.
– American decompression researcher. (1911–1994) – American decompression researcher. – Decompression research. – Isobaric counterdiffusion.
E – Author of diving medicine textbooks
F
(1917-2008)
Narcotic effects of oxygen at pressure. – Saturation decompression and excursions from storage depth.
G
(c2007) – American decompression researcher. (4 June 1901 – 17 July 1984) – Decompression researcher.
(1988)
H , Haldane's decompression model (1930-2011)
(1922-2006) (c1988) – British decompression researcher, combined perfusion/diffusion model of the BSAC'88 tables. (1866-1952) (1934-2006), Thermodynamic model of decompression
– early dive computers (Orca Edge etc)
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– French decompression researcher.
K
, Canadian decompression researcher, Kidd–Stubbs decompression model, DCIEM decompression tables – Decompression sickness treatment researcher. Hyperbaric treatment schedules#Kindwall's monoplace table – Research on PFO in divers – Decompression researcher.
L (1917-2011) – Environmental physiologist – American decompression researcher. – Development of the DCIEM 1983 Decompression Model for Compressed Air Diving – Australian decompression researcher.
– Diving safety, human factors in diving. (see Rebreather Forum 4, Human Factors in Diving conference 2021,)
M
– Hyperbaric medicine. (13 October 1825 – 12 August 1901) (b1958)
– Hyperbaric medicine.
N – Diving medicine and physiology. - Canadian decompression researcher
O – RGBM decompression algorithm.
P – Decompression researcher
- Decompression researcher
(1962 - )
Q (c1973)
R (1922-2011)
S (c1906)
(1901-1994) (fl.1873)
(c1984) Canadian decompression researcher, Kidd-Stubbs decompressin model, DCIEM decompression tables
T (1945-2004), Thalmann algorithm – Decompression researcher – Decompression researcher, Table Marine National 90 (MN90).
U (c1984) Diabetes and diving.
V – Oxygen window –
W
– Early decompression research.
– American decompression researcher, Reduced gradient bubble model (RGBM) – American decompression researcher. Concept of M-values, US Navy (1965?) decompression tables.
Y (c1937) – US Navy decompression researcher. 1937 US Navy tables, Treatment with hyperbaric oxygen.Yarbrough OD, Behnke AR. The treatment of compressed air illness using oxygen. The Journal of Industrial Hygrography and Toxicology 1939;21:213‐8. – American decompression researcher. Varying Permeability Model
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See also
References Course Taught at the University of Michigan
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