Albert R. Behnke

<p><a href="/facts/Captain_(United_States)/8bIpQNpc">Captain</a> Albert Richard Behnke Jr. <a href="/facts/United_States_Navy/xYK0fUou">USN (ret.)</a> (August 8, 1903 – January 16, 1992) was an American <a href="/facts/Physician/qJ3woFvG">physician</a>, who was principally responsible for developing the U.S. Naval Medical Research Institute. Behnke separated the symptoms of <a href="/facts/Arterial_Gas_Embolism/DC00yS4z">Arterial Gas Embolism</a> (AGE) from those of <a href="/facts/Decompression_sickness/aSpCCQaU">decompression sickness</a> and suggested the use of <a href="/facts/Oxygen/acyn6o8r">oxygen</a> in <a href="/facts/Recompression_chamber/K0uRU4RY">recompression therapy</a>.
</p><p>Behnke is also known as the "modern-day father" of human <a href="/facts/Body_composition/nUrhSQF1">body composition</a> for his work in developing the <a href="/facts/Hydrostatic_weighing/XJ7U4mzv">hydrodensitometry</a> method of measuring body density, his standard man and woman models as well as a somatogram based on <a href="/facts/Anthropometry/VNqz4MR3">anthropometric</a> measurements.
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Albert R. Behnke