Morgan Wells | |
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 Morgan Wells in 1965 on the Sealab project | |
| Born | John Morgan Wells April 12, 1940 Hopewell, Virginia, U.S. |
| Died | July 28, 2017 (aged 77) Matthews, Virginia, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Randolph-Macon College Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Diving medicine, Diver training |
| Institutions | NOAA |
| Thesis | Pressure and Hemoglobin Oxygenation (1969) |
John Morgan Wells (April 12, 1940 - July 28, 2017) was a marine biologist, and physiologist involved in the development of decompression systems for deep diving, and the use of nitrox as a breathing gas for diving. He is known for developing the widely used NOAA Nitrox I (32% O2/N2) and II (36% O2/N2) mixtures and their decompression tables in the late 1970s, the deep diving mixture of oxygen, helium, and nitrogen known as NOAA Trimix I, for research in undersea habitats, where divers live and work under pressure for extended periods, and for training diving physicians and medical technicians in hyperbaric medicine.[1]