List of researchers in underwater diving
{{Short description|People who made discoveries or inventions in the science or technology of underwater diving}}
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
- {{annotated link|Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont}}
- {{annotated link|William Beebe}}
- {{annotated link|Georges Beuchat}} (1910-1992)
- {{annotated link|Joseph-Martin Cabirol}} (1799-1874)
- {{annotated link|Alphonse and Théodore Carmagnolle}} Atmospheric diving suit.
- {{annotated link|John R. Clarke (scientist)|John R. Clarke}} (1945- )
- {{annotated link|Jacques Cousteau|Jacques-Yves Cousteau}} Co-inventor of the twin hose open circuit demand scuba regulator (AquaLung)
- {{annotated link|Robert Davis (inventor)}} (1870–1965)
- {{annotated link|Charles Anthony Deane}} (1796-1848)
- {{annotated link|John Deane (inventor)}} (1800-1884)
- {{annotated link|Louis de Corlieu}} (1888-1967?)
- {{annotated link|Auguste Denayrouze}} (1837-1883)
- {{annotated link|Ted Eldred}} (1920-2005)
- {{annotated link|Luigi Ferraro}} (1914-2006)
- {{annotated link|Henry Fleuss}} (1851-1933) Early working rebreather
- {{annotated link|Émile Gagnan}} (1900-1979)
- {{annotated link|Graham Hawkes}} (1947- )
- {{annotated link|Stig Insulan}} Dry suit buoyancy controls
- {{annotated link|Peter Kreeft}} Early diving suit
- {{annotated link|Christian J. Lambertsen}} (1917-2011) Early oxygen rebreather (SCUBA)
- {{annotated link|Yves Le Prieur}} (1885-1963)
- {{annotated link|John Lethbridge}} (1675-1759) Diving suit
- {{annotated link|William Hogarth Main}} "Hogarthian" rig
- {{annotated link|Ernest William Moir}} (1862-1933)
- {{annotated link|Phil Nuytten}} (1941-2023)
- {{annotated link|Joseph Salim Peress}} (1896-1978) Atmospheric diving suits
- {{annotated link|Auguste Piccard}} (1884-1962)
- {{annotated link|Benoît Rouquayrol}}
- {{annotated link|Joe Savoie}} - Invented the neck dam for diving helmets (1926-1996)
- {{annotated link|Willard Franklyn Searle}} (1924-2009) Buoyancy compensator developments
- {{annotated link|Gordon Smith (inventor)}} (1950-2006)
- {{annotated link|Augustus Siebe}} (1788-1872)
- {{annotated link|Teseo Tesei}} (1909-1941)
- {{annotated link|Jacques Triger}} (1801-1867)
Researchers in diving medicine and physiology, including decompression theory
{{expand section|Researchers not listed here, each with at least one reliable reference.|small=no|date=October 2022}}
=B=
- {{annotated link|Arthur J. Bachrach}}
- {{annotated link|Costantino Balestra}} – Italian decompression researcher.
- {{annotated link|R. Ball}}
- {{annotated link|E. E. P. Barnard}}
- {{annotated link|Bruce Edward Bassett}} (6 Jul 1935 – 4 May 2002) – USAF decompression researcher
- {{annotated link|A. Baz}}
- {{annotated link|Albert R. Behnke}} (1903-1992)
- {{annotated link|Peter B. Bennett}} (12 June 1931 – 9 August 2022)
- {{annotated link|Thomas E. Berghage}}
- {{annotated link|Paul Bert}} (1833-1886)
- {{annotated link|Jef Biard}}
- {{annotated link|Jean-Eric Blatteau}} –
- {{annotated link|George F. Bond}} (1915-1983)
- {{annotated link|M. Bontoux}}
- {{annotated link|Jolie Bookspan}} – Decompression research.
- {{annotated link|Arthur Boycott|Arthur Edwin Boycott}}
- {{annotated link|Robert Boyle}} Relation between pressure and volume in a gas, and the effects of low ambient pressure on animals.
- {{annotated link|Alf O. Brubakk}} (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.
- {{annotated link|Eugène Bucquoy |Bucquoy, Eugène}}, (1837-1904), Hypothesis that blood gases form bubbles during decompression.{{cite web |url=http://renaud.helstroffer.free.fr/sub_technique/fiche_initiation/mn90.pdf |title=Table Marine National 90 (MN90): Version du 03/05/1999 |last1=Trucco |first1=Jean-Noël |first2=Jef |last2=Biard |first3=Jean-Yves |last3=Redureau |first4=Yvon |last4=Fauvel |date=3 May 1999 |work=Comité interrégional Bretagne & Pays de la Loire; Commission Technique Régionale. |publisher=F.F.E.S.S.M. |language=fr |access-date=23 January 2017 |archive-date=3 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203192623/http://renaud.helstroffer.free.fr/sub_technique/fiche_initiation/mn90.pdf |url-status=live }}
- {{annotated link|Albert A. Bühlmann}} Bühlmann decompression algorithm
- {{annotated link|M. E. Burkard}}
- {{annotated link|W. P. Butler}}
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=D=
- {{annotated link|Guybon Chesney Castell Damant}}
- {{annotated link|B. G. D'Aoust}} – US Navy decompression researcher.
- {{annotated link|Jefferson C. Davis (decompression researcher)}}
- {{annotated link|Petar J. DeNoble}} – American decompression researcher.
- {{annotated link|Kenneth William Donald}} (1911–1994)
- {{annotated link|David J. Doolette}} – American decompression researcher.
- {{annotated link|Joel A. Dovenbarger}} – Decompression research.
- {{annotated link|R. G. Dunford}} – Isobaric counterdiffusion.
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=F=
- {{annotated link|Yvon Fauvel}}
- {{annotated link|William Paul Fife}} (1917-2008)
- {{annotated link|Edward T Flynn}}
- {{annotated link|M. Frankenhaeuser}} Narcotic effects of oxygen at pressure.
- {{annotated link|Valerie Flook}} – Saturation decompression and excursions from storage depth.{{cite report |last=Flook |first=Valerie |title=Excursion tables in saturation diving – decompression implications of current UK practice |work=Research report 244 |url=http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrpdf/rr244.pdf |access-date=27 November 2013 |year=2004 |publisher=Prepared by Unimed Scientific Limited for the Health and Safety Executive |location=Aberdeen United Kingdom |isbn=0-7176-2869-8 |archive-date=2 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202225652/http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrpdf/rr244.pdf |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Valerie-Flook-2005616858 |title=Valerie Flook’s research while affiliated with CPL Scientific Limited and other places |website=www.researchgate.net |access-date=4 September 2024 }}
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=H=
- {{annotated link|John Scott Haldane}}, Haldane's decompression model
- {{annotated link|Robert William Hamilton Jr.}} (1930-2011)
- {{annotated link|R. A. Hansen}}
- {{annotated link|J. A. Hawkins}}
- {{annotated link|Henry Valence Hempleman}} (1922-2006)
- {{annotated link|Tom R. Hennessy}} (c1988) – British decompression researcher, combined perfusion/diffusion model of the BSAC'88 tables.
- {{annotated link|Leonard Hill (physiologist)|Leonard Erskine Hill}} (1866-1952)
- {{annotated link|Brian Andrew Hills}} (1934-2006), Thermodynamic model of decompression
- {{annotated link|J. Himm}}
- {{annotated link|D. C. Hoffman}}
- {{annotated link|J. How}}
- {{annotated link|Louis D. Homer}}
- {{annotated link|Felix Hoppe-Seyler|Ernst Felix Immanuel Hoppe-Seyler}}
- {{annotated link|Karl E. Huggins}} – early dive computers (Orca Edge etc)
- {{annotated link|J. Hugon}}
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=K=
- {{annotated link|Edmond Kay}}
- {{annotated link|F. J. Keays}}
- {{annotated link|Derek J. Kidd}}, Canadian decompression researcher, Kidd-stubbs decompression model, DCIEM decompression tables
- {{annotated link|Eric P. Kindwall}} – Decompression sickness treatment researcher. Hyperbaric treatment schedules#Kindwall's monoplace table
- {{annotated link|Joseph Kisslo}} – Research on PFO in divers
- {{annotated link|Jacek Kot}} – Decompression researcher.
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- {{annotated link|Christian J. Lambertsen}} (1917-2011)
- {{annotated link|Michael A. Lang}} – Environmental physiologist
- {{annotated link|Edward H. Lanphier}} – American decompression researcher.
- {{annotated link|G. Lauchner}} Development of the DCIEM 1983 Decompression Model for Compressed Air Diving
- {{annotated link|David Hugh LeMessurier}}, Australian decompression researcher.
- {{annotated link|Gareth Lock}} Diving safety, human factors in diving.{{cn|date=August 2024}} (see Rebreather Forum 4, Human Factors in Diving conference 2021,)
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=N=
=O=
=P=
- {{annotated link|Virginie Papadopolou}} – Decompression researcher
- {{annotated link|D. Paris}}
- {{annotated link|E. C. Parker}}
- {{annotated link|W. D. M. Paton}}
- {{annotated link|A. A. Pilmanis}} - Decompression researcher
- {{annotated link|B. Pol}}
- {{annotated link|Neal W. Pollock}} (1962 - )
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=R=
=S=
- {{annotated link|V. Schrotter}} (c1906)
- {{annotated link|A. Seireg}}
- {{annotated link|Paul J. Sheffield}}
- {{annotated link|Charles Wesley Shilling}} (1901-1994)
- {{annotated link|Andrew Smith (physiologist)}} (fl.1873)
- {{annotated link|Merrill P. Spencer}}
- {{annotated link|George D. Stillson}}
- {{annotated link|Roy A. Stubbs}} (c1984) Canadian decompression researcher, Kidd-Stubbs decompressin model, DCIEM decompression tables
- {{annotated link|S. S. Survanshi}}
- {{annotated link|H. Swanson}}
===T===
- {{annotated link|Edward D. Thalmann}} (1945-2004), Thalmann algorithm
- {{annotated link|P. Tikuisis}} – Decompression researcher
- {{annotated link|Jean-Noël Trucco}} – Decompression researcher, Table Marine National 90 (MN90).
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=V=
- {{annotated link|Hugh D. Van Liew}} – Oxygen window
- {{annotated link|Richard D. Vann}} –
- {{annotated link|James Vorosmarti Jr}}
=W=
- {{annotated link|Dennis N. Walder}}
- {{annotated link|T. J. Watelle}} – Early decompression research.
- {{annotated link|Paul K. Weathersby}}
- {{annotated link|James T. Webb}}
- {{annotated link|R. S. Weaver}}
- {{annotated link|D. West}}
- {{annotated link|Bruce Wienke}} – American decompression researcher, Reduced gradient bubble model (RGBM)
- {{annotated link|Robert D. Workman (physiologist)}} – American decompression researcher. Concept of M-values, US Navy (1965?) decompression tables.
=Y=
- {{annotated link|O. D. Yarborough}} (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.
- {{annotated link|Donald E. Yount}} – American decompression researcher. Varying Permeability Model
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See also
- {{annotated link|Diving medicine}}
- {{annotated link|History of decompression research and development}}
- {{annotated link|Human physiology of underwater diving}}
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