Oral history [videorecording], between 1990 and 1997.

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Oral history [videorecording], between 1990 and 1997.

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Videorecording of oral history conducted at Dr. Luft's home in Albuquerque, N.M. in the early 1990s. Interviewers are not identified. Luft discusses the development of his career as a physiologist, including the influence of Hans Hartmann and Luft's participation, with Hartmann, in the 1937 German Himalayan expedition. The interview is conducted in German.

1 videocassette (75 min.) : sd., col. ; 1 in.

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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Luft, U. C. (Ulrich C.)

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Research physiologist, physician, and authority in the fields of lung physiology and acclimatization to high altitude. Luft was a member of the 1937 and 1938 German expeditions to Nanga Parbat in the Himalayan Mountains. He served as chief of the Dept. of Aviation Physiology at the Aero-Medical Research Institute in Berlin. Luft entered the U.S. in 1947 as part of the "Operation Paperclip" recruitment program. He served as head of the Dept. of Physiology at the Air Force School of Aviation Medic...