Otto Herbert Schmitt
Professor of Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering

Washington University
St. Louis, MO		 A.B. 1934 Zoology, Physics, Mathematics
Washington University
St. Louis, MO		 Ph. D. 1937 Zoology, Physics, Mathematics
University College
London, England		 Post
Doc		 1937-39 Biophysics


  • Born St. Louis, Mo., April 6, 1913

  • Married Aug. 1, 1937.

  • A.B., Washington University (St. Louis) 1934

  • Ph. D. (physics, zoology), 1937

  • National Research Council fellow, University College, London, 1938

  • Sir Halley Stewart fellow, 1939

  • Instructor Zoology & Physics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 39-41, assoc. prof. 41-49, Prof. 49-98

  • Official investigator, National Defense Research Comm. contract, 40-42

  • Research Engineer, Columbia, 42-43

  • Supervising engineer, special devices division, Airborne Instruments Laboratory, N.Y. 43-47

  • Consultant, U.S. Public Health Service; Inst. Defense Analysis.

  • Member, advisory panel, Space Science Board Biology and Psychology, 58-61

  • Chairman, executive council bioastronautics, Joint Armed Forces-National Academy of Science, 58-61

  • Douglas Aircraft Scientific Board of Directors

  • Board of Directors, Archaeus Project

  • Board of Directors, past president, Inventors and Technology Transfer Society

  • Lovelace Award, 60

  • Morlock Award, 63

  • Wetherill Medal, 72

  • Minnesota Inventors Hall of Fame, 78

  • National Academy of Engineering, 79

  • IEEE EMBS Life Achievement Award, 1987

  • Medical Alley Award, 1988

  • Consultant U.S.A.: U.S.A.A.F.: U.S.N.: National Advisory committee on aeronautics, 44

  • AAAS

  • Fellow, American Physical Society

  • Biophysical Society

  • American Physiological Society

  • American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

  • Aerospace medical Assn.

  • American Assn. Physics Teachers

  • Fellow, Institute for Electrical & Electronic Engineers

  • Associate, American Academy of Neurology

  • Fellow, New York Academy of Sciences

  • Pan-American Medical Assn.

  • Nerve impulse mechanisms

  • Tridimensional oscilloscopic displays

  • Bivalent computers

  • Biological tissue impedance analyses

  • Electronic circuitry

  • Direct current transformers

  • Trigger circuits

  • Electronic plethysmography

  • Antenna radiation pattern measurements

  • Stereovectorelctrocardiography

  • Phase space displays

  • Bioastronautics

  • Electromagneto biology

  • Technical optimization of health care delivery

  • Technical optimization of biomedical communication and control systems

  • Santosha Index for quality of life

  • Strand epidemiology

  • Personally portable whole life medical history

  • Biomimetic Science and Technology.

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