| StorageSite | UCL Special Collections |
| Level | File |
| Reference Number | HALDANE/5/6/3 |
| Title | Diving Research |
| Date | 1939-1950 |
| Description | Correspondence regarding Haldane's wartime research into the physiological effects of diving, specifically the effects of breathing different mixtures of gases at different pressures and research into decompression. Includes discussion of the experiments and their results as well as matters relating to insurance, exemption of Haldane's staff and volunteers from military service and medical reports and compensation for staff injured through their participation in these studies.
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Also includes correspondence relating to the Dunbar-Nasmith Committee (1939-1942) and reports of the Medical Research Council Royal Naval Personnel Research Committee (Underwater Physiology Sub Committee) from 1948-1950.
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Primary correspondents are Robert C Frederick, Sir Robert Davis [sometimes pp. Siebe Gorman], S G Rainsford and Admiral Sir Martin Eric Dunbar-Nasmith. |
| Extent | 2 files |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| AccessConditions | The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking. |
| Copyright | Robert C Frederick, Sir Robert Davis [sometimes pp. Siebe Gorman], S G Rainsford and Admiral Sir Martin Eric Dunbar-Nasmith |