
Lindhard was a lecturer in the Theory of Gymnastics at the University of Copenhagen where Krogh had recently been promoted to be Professor of Zoophysiology. The Danish authors of the 1917 paper were August Krogh and Johannes Lindhard (Fig. At the time, Haldane was a Fellow of New College, Oxford, and was well-known, not only for developing new methods of gas and blood analysis and for his researches in respiratory physiology but also for his success in solving a range of practical problems arising in clinical medicine, in coal mines and from the Royal Navy’s concerns for the survival of submariners and divers. 1A) and he was also senior author with JC Meakins and JG Priestley of the 1918/1919 paper. The author of the 1915 paper was John Scott Haldane (Fig. The importance of the ratio, VA/QC, in pulmonary gas exchange did not appear in this paper de novo but emerged in two papers, published by physiologists in 19, concerned with the volume of the respiratory dead space.

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