Age, Biography and Wiki

Earl Wood was born on 1 January, 1912 in Mankato, Minnesota, is an Earl Howard Wood was cardiopulmonary physiologist. Discover Earl Wood's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 97 years old?

Popular As N/A
Occupation N/A
Age 97 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 1 January 1912
Birthday 1 January
Birthplace Mankato, Minnesota
Date of death 2009
Died Place Rochester, Minnesota
Nationality United States

We recommend you to check the complete list of Famous People born on 1 January. He is a member of famous with the age 97 years old group.

Earl Wood Height, Weight & Measurements

At 97 years old, Earl Wood height not available right now. We will update Earl Wood's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.

Physical Status
Height Not Available
Weight Not Available
Body Measurements Not Available
Eye Color Not Available
Hair Color Not Available

Dating & Relationship status

He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.

Family
Parents Not Available
Wife Not Available
Sibling Not Available
Children Not Available

Earl Wood Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Earl Wood worth at the age of 97 years old? Earl Wood’s income source is mostly from being a successful . He is from United States. We have estimated Earl Wood's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
Salary in 2024 Under Review
Net Worth in 2023 Pending
Salary in 2023 Under Review
House Not Available
Cars Not Available
Source of Income

Earl Wood Social Network

Instagram
Linkedin
Twitter
Facebook
Wikipedia
Imdb

Timeline

1912

Earl Howard Wood (January 1, 1912 – March 18, 2009) was an American cardiopulmonary physiologist who helped invent the G-suit, brought heart catheterization into a clinical reality and introduced dynamic volumetric computed tomography for the study of the heart and lungs.

Shortly after receiving an M.D. and PhD in physiology from the University of Minnesota medical school under the mentorship of Professor Maurice B. Visscher, MD, Wood became a key member of a team, working in a laboratory at the Mayo Clinic, tasked with helping military pilots and flight crew survive and function in high G-force environments.

Based upon extensive physiologic testing via use of the human centrifuge installed at the Mayo Clinic, it was determined that blackout and then unconsciousness was caused by reduction of blood flow to the eyes first and then the brain.

The solutions the team arrived at were the M-1 breath hold maneuver and the G-suit.

The M-1 maneuver consisted of a strained exhalation effort against a closed glottis designed to increase left ventricular pressure.

Earl Wood was born to Inez Goff and William Clark Wood in Mankato, Minnesota on January 1, 1912 and started life on a subsistence farm.

William Wood, in addition to farming, was a real estate businessman.

1934

Earl Wood earned a B.A. in Mathematics and Chemistry from Macalester College in 1934, and his MD degree and a PhD degree in physiology from the University of Minnesota.

Earl was one of 5 brothers (Earl, Chester, Delbert, Harland and Abe) and a sister, Louise.

All of Earl Wood's siblings grew up to be highly accomplished.

Louise A. Wood was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Truman for her services as overseas director of the American Red Cross during World War II.

1935

As a biochemist, he was notable for proving in 1935 that animals, humans and bacteria utilized carbon dioxide and received the National Medal of Science.

Chester was a teacher and a university administrator; Delbert was, in succession, a lawyer, a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent, and a railway executive; Abe was an internist and founder of a Colorado-based medical clinic.

1940

The G-suit was adopted in the 1940s.

The current models are based on the pattern Wood and his colleagues designed.

Following World War II, Wood was recruited to participate in what was known as "Operation Paperclip" The goal was to keep the top German scientists away from Russia and working for the United States.

1946

(Although the references given are dated 1946-7, the work was performed much before then. In, see the acknowledgments section explaining the closed nature of the research with restrictions placed on publication during the war. During the war effort the Mayo Clinic laboratory was operating with government Confidential secrecy.) The G suit was a garment, produced by the David Clark Company, which has air bladders situated at the calves, thighs, and abdomen of the wearer.

The bladders inflate as the G-force acting on the aircraft increase, constricting the wearer's arteries, hence increasing blood pressure and blood flow to the brain.

The G-suit was a superior solution to another alternative (a water-filled suit) being tested at the time, which was considered impractically heavy and cumbersome.

The water-filled, pulsatile pressure suits were developed to effect venous return.

However, Wood and colleagues' detailed physiologic measurements demonstrated that what was required was augmentation of arterial pressure.

Wood himself regularly tested the flight suits, taking many turns in a human centrifuge and plane dubbed the "G-wiz."

He calculated that during more than a thousand rides, he had lost consciousness for an aggregate of at least fifteen minutes (without any observed lasting damage).

1947

Wood was awarded a Presidential Certificate of Merit by Harry Truman in 1947.

1950

Not surprisingly, in 1950, Earl Wood's mother, Inez, was awarded the title of "Minnesota Mother of the Year."

Earl and his wife, Ada, had a daughter, Phoebe and three sons, Mark, Guy and E. Andrew.

1961

and became the executive director of the Girl Scouts of the USA from 1961 to 1972.

Harland G. Wood was the first director of the department of biochemistry at the school of medicine and dean of sciences, Case Western Reserve University.

1962

In 1962, Wood was the tenth scientist to be named "Career Investigator," of the American Heart Association.

These funds allowed Wood considerable flexibility in regards to the directions of his research.

After his work on the G-Suit, Wood worked on techniques for measuring cardiac blood flow.

He was granted a patent for the ear oximeter, an optical instrument that measures blood oxygen levels without taking blood by examining the variation of light absorption as a function of oxygen saturation of hemoglobin.

Integral to the work leading to the development of the G suit was the perfection of vascular catheterization methods needed to understand the distribution of blood pressure and flow.

Shortly after the end of World War II, open-heart surgery emerged with the Mayo contribution to the development of the heart-lung bypass machine initially developed by Gibbons and perfected by Wood and colleagues.

Wood's work at the Mayo Clinic lead to the development of many technologies allowing for the assessment of the heart and lungs including dye dilution methods serving to characterize cardiac output, methods for the assessment of central blood volume, the calculation of pulmonary vascular resistance (known as the "Wood Unit" and calculated by subtracting pulmonary capillary wedge pressure from the mean pulmonary arterial pressure and dividing by the cardiac output), analog subtraction angiography, and eventually the Dynamic Spatial Reconstructor (DSR), a predecessor to modern high speed volumetric computed tomography (CT) allowing for the evaluation of the beating heart and breathing lungs.

The DSR comprised 14 X-ray tubes and a hemicylindrical fluorescent screen imaged by 14 associated television cameras.

In all, Wood is noted for his contributions (together with members of the Biodynamics Research Unit (BRU), under his direction, within the physiology and biophysics department at the Mayo Clinic) in the following areas:

Wood's publication list, with more than 700 entries, is a testament to the number of fellows who trained under him and who became prominent researchers in their own right.