Louis Agassiz Shaw, Jr.

Physician, Inventor

1886 –

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Who is Louis Agassiz Shaw, Jr.?

Louis Agassiz Shaw, Jr. was an instructor of physiology at the School of Public Health of Harvard University, where he is credited in 1928 along with Philip Drinker for inventing the Drinker respirator, the first widely used iron lung.

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Born
Sep 25, 1886
Chestnut Hill
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Harvard University

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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