John Stapp
American surgeon
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John Paul Stapp was an American career U.S. Air Force officer, flight surgeon, physician, biophysicist, and pioneer in studying the effects of acceleration forces on humans. He was a colleague and contemporary of Chuck Yeager, and became known as... Wikipedia
Born: July 11, 1910, State of Bahia, Brazil
Died: November 13, 1999 (age 89 years), Alamogordo, NM
Education: University of Minnesota Medical School (1944), The University of Texas at Austin, Baylor University, and more
Known for: Study of deceleration on humans, Stapp's Law
Award: Elliott Cresson Medal (1973)
Fields: Physics (Acceleration); Physician and Medicinal science