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Chapter 1
Factors affecting Performance, Brief History, and Biological Control
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Physiology
Undergraduate 3
09/13/2010

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A.V. Hill
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-Nobel prize winner from England
-measurement of heat production during muscular contraction and recovery
-measurement of oxygen uptake
-developed terms: steady state exercise, VO2 max, oxygen debt, metabolic efficiency
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Otto Meyerhof
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-Nobel prize winner from Germany
-discovered relationship b/t oxygen consumption and lactic acid
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August Krogh
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-Nobel prize winner from Denmark
-key work in the area of capillary circulation and gas diffusion
-study of gas exchange
-also designed a great deal of instrumentation used in exercise physiology
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J.S. Haldane
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-scientist whose calculated oxygen consumption
-Haldane effect- CO2 dissociation
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Christian Bohr
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-a scientist
-rightward shift in oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve
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C.G. Douglas
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-a scientist
-worked with Haldane in the role of O2 and lactic acid in the control of breathing during exercise, including some work at various altitudes
-created the canvas-and-rubber gas collection bag
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Sid Robinson
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-was a doctoral student that worked in the Harvard Fatigue Lab
-had a distinguished career at the Institute of Environmental Stress
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