Breathing on the roof of the world : memoir of a respiratory physiologist

• Main Author: West, John B. (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer, [2017]
• Series: Springer biographies.
• Subjects: West, John B. > (John Burnard), > 1928-; fyziologové; dýchací ústrojí; dýchání; horolezectví; nadmořská výška; physiologists; respiration; respiratory tract; mountaineering; height above mean sea level; elektronické knihy; biografie; electronic books; biography
• ISBN: 9781493971220; 9781493971213
• Physical Description: 1 online resource : illustrations

This book is an informal autobiography by John West MD PhD. He obtained his medical degree in Adelaide, Australia and then spent 15 years mainly at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital in London where he, with others, used radioactive oxygen-15 to make the first description of...