Hubertus Strughold

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birth_date = June 5, 1898
birth_place = Westphalia, Germany
death_date = 1987
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alma_mater = Göttingen
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known_for = space medicine
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Dr. Hubertus Strughold (1898-1987) was born in Westphalia, Germany. He was educated at Göttingen and received a doctorate in 1922. He is the author of over 180 papers in the field of space medicine. For this reason, he has been called "The father of U.S. space medicine". [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4443934.stm BBC NEWS | Magazine | Project Paperclip: Dark side of the Moon] ] Strughold was brought to the United States at the end of World War II as part of Operation Paperclip and subsequently played an important role in developing the pressure suit worn by early American astronauts.

In 1949 Strughold was made director of the Department of Space Medicine at the School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas (now the School of Aerospace Medicine at Brooks Air Force Base). Randolph’s aeromedical library was named after him in 1977, but later renamed because documents from the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal linked Strughold to medical experiments in which inmates from Dachau concentration camp were tortured and killed. As the head of Nazi Germany's Air Force Institute for Aviation Medicine, Strughold participated in a 1942 conference that discussed "experiments" on human beings carried out by the institute. The experiments included subjecting Dachau inmates to torture and death by being immersed in water, placed in air pressure chambers, forced to drink sea water and exposed to freezing temperatures. Strughold had denied approving the experiments and said he learned of them only after World War II.

In May 2006 Dr. Strughold's name was removed from the International Space Hall of Fame by unanimous vote of the New Mexico Museum of Space History's board. [cite web | author=Associated Press | authorlink=Associated Press | date=2006-05-19 | url=http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12869190/ | title=Former Nazi removed from Space Hall of Fame | publisher=MSNBC | accessdate=2006-05-19] Strughold's name was also removed from Brooks Air Force Base's aeromedical library in 1995 and his picture was removed from the mural "The World History of Medicine" at Ohio State University in 1993. Additional references and photograph at [http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=34223] and [http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=101442]

References

*Citation
id = PMID:10954370
url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10954370
last=Musgrave
first=S
publication-date=2000 Aug
year=2000
title=Hubertus Strughold Award.
volume=71
issue=8
periodical=Aviation, space, and environmental medicine
pages=874
*Citation
id = PMID:12234052
url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12234052
publication-date=2002 Sep
year=2002
title=Hubertus Strughold Award. Earl H. Wood, M.D., Ph.D.
volume=73
issue=9
periodical=Aviation, space, and environmental medicine
pages=948-9
*Citation
id = PMID:17679572
url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17679572
last=Campbell
first=Mark R
last2=Mohler
first2=Stanley R
last3=Harsch
first3=Viktor A
last4=Baisden
first4=Denise
publication-date=2007 Jul
year=2007
title=Hubertus Strughold: the "Father of Space Medicine".
volume=78
issue=7
periodical=Aviation, space, and environmental medicine
pages=716-9; discussion 719

ee also

*Nazi human experimentation

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