Lamport, Harold, 1908-1975.

Biographical Sketch: Lamport received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1929 and was elected Phi Beta Kappa. Lamport completed post-graduate work in physics and mathematics at the University of Göttingen (Germany) before studying medicine at Columbia University, where he graduated in 1934. After his residency at Bethel Israel Hospital in New York City, he became Director of the Richard Koster Research Laboratory from 1937 to 1939. Then from 1939 to 1942 he was a member of Columbia University's Medical School in the Department of Neurology. He joined the faculty of the Department of Physiology at Yale University's School of Medicine in 1942, lecturing on the application of mathematics and physics to physiology and medicine. Lamport was appointed research professor of physiology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Graduate School of Biological Sciences at City University of New York in 1951 and remained there until his death. During his tenure at Yale during World War II, he worked on the pneumatic lever suit, an improved anti-gravity suite worn by airplane pilots to prevent blackouts at high speeds. The technology was later improved into the suits worn by NASA astronauts. Lamport's high altitude flying suits (Anti-G suits) used in World War II by U.S. Air Force pilots were displayed at the Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum in 1976. Another outgrowth of this work was a portable iron lung/emergency respirator developed with his colleague Ralph E. Eichorn. It was made of rubberized cloth for military use in the battlefield. In the 1950s Lamport, along with Eichorn and Herbert F. Newman, pioneered the use of high-frequency sound waves to disintegrate gall stones, thus eliminating the need for surgery. He repeated this success with kidney stones in 1955.

From the description of Harold Lamport papers, 1925-1979. (National Library of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 14325295

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