12 Facts About Earl Wood

Earl Howard Wood 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.

Earl Wood calculated that during more than a thousand rides, he had lost consciousness for an aggregate of at least fifteen minutes.

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

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

Earl Wood 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.

Earl 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.

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

Earl Wood was one of 5 brothers 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.

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.