Strughold, Hubertus (1898–1987)
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Hubertus Strughold
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German-born pioneer of space medicine and the
author of over 180 papers in the field. Strughold was brought to the United
States at the end of World War II as part of Operation
Paperclip and subsequently played an important role in developing the
pressure suits worn by early American astronauts. In 1949 Strughold was
made director of the department of space medicine at the School of Aviation
Medicine at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas (now the School of Aerospace
Medicine at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas). Randolph's Aeromedical Library
was named after him in 1977, but later renamed because documents from the
Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal linked Strughold to medical experiments in
which inmates from Dachau concentration camp were tortured and killed. In
May 2006, Strughold's name was removed from the International Space Hall
of Fame at the New Mexico Museum of Space History for the same reason.
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• SPACE
AND AEROSPACE MEDICINE
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