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Arthur Joy Rawson

Born  1896
Died  1964

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American medical physicist, 1896-1963.

Biography of Arthur Joy Rawson

Bibliography

  • Isaac Starr (1895-), A, J. Rawson, H. A. Schroeder, and N. R. Joseph:
    Studies on the estimation of cardiac output in man, and abnotrmalities in cardiac function, from the heart's recoil and the blood's impacts. the ballistocardiogram.
    American Journal of Physiology, Bethesda, 1939, 127: 1-28.
    Introduction of the ballistocardiogram.

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