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

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...

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Main Author: West, John B. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Springer, [2017]
Series: Springer biographies.
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ISBN: 9781493971220
9781493971213
Physical Description: 1 online resource : illustrations

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