A professor of medicine and researcher in high altitude physiology, Reeves was born on November 17, 1928, in Hazard, Kentucky. He received a B.S. in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1950 and his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1954. Reeves taught at the University of Colorado Medical Center (1957-1961 and 1972-2004) and at the University of Kentucky (1961-1972). He participated in Operation Everest II (1985), an examination of the effects of hypobaric hypoxia under the controlled conditions of a decompression chamber; studied ventilatory acclimatization in mountaineers in Nepal; and altitude acclimatization in women (1999-2001). He edited, with Robert Glover, a compilation of narratives of pioneers of high altitude medicine titled Attitudes on Altitude: Pioneers of Medical Research in Colorado's High Mountains (2001). Reeves died in 2004.
From the description of John T. Reeves papers, 1949-2004. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 243703760
