Lawrence Patrick
Professor
Lawrence Patrick may well be considered one of the fathers of the crash test dummy. Between 1960 and 1975, while a biomechanics professor at Detroit's Wayne State University, Patrick described his work by saying "I was a human crash-test dummy". Wikipedia
Born: 1920, Detroit, MI
Died: April 30, 2006 (age 86 years), Hendersonville, NC
Research interests: Coastal Oceanography, Hydrodynamic and Ecological Modeling, Coral Bleaching, and more