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'''Philip Drinker''' ([[December 12]]{{Fact|date=March 2007}}, 1894<ref name=Lehigh>Lehigh University, P. C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science. ''Distinguished Alumni: Great Talents & Bright Minds'' web series. [http://www3.lehigh.edu/engineering/about/drinker.asp Philip Drinker '17]. Accessed March 18, 2007.</ref> in [[Haverford, Pennsylvania]]<ref name=Lehigh/>–[[October 19]], [[1972]]<ref name=Sherwood>Sherwood, R. J. "Obituaries: Philip Drinker 1894–1972." ''The Annals of Occupational Hygiene.'' Vol. 16, pp. 93-94. Pergamon Press 1973. [http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/16/1/93 Available online by subscription.]</ref> in [[Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire]]<ref name=Sherwood/>) was an [[industrial hygiene|industrial hygienist]]<ref name=Sherwood/> who invented the first widely used [[iron lung]] in 1928 with [[Louis Agassiz Shaw]].<ref name=Sherwood/>
Drinker's father was railroad-man and [[Lehigh University]] president [[Henry Sturgis Drinker]];<ref name=Lehigh/> his siblings included [[lawyer]] and [[musicologist]] [[Henry Sandwith Drinker, Jr.]], [[pathologist]] [[Cecil K. Drinker|Cecil Kent Drinker]],<ref name=Sherwood/>, businessman James Drinker, and [[biographer]] [[Catherine Drinker Bowen]].<ref name=Lehigh/> After graduating from [[Princeton University|Princeton]] in 1915,<ref name=Lehigh/> Philip Drinker trained as a [[chemical engineer]] at [[Lehigh University|Lehigh]] for two years.<ref name=Lehigh/>
Drinker was hired to teach industrial illumination and ventilation at [[Harvard Medical School]]<ref name=Lehigh/> and soon joined his brother [[Cecil K. Drinker|Cecil]] and colleagues [[Alice Hamilton]] and [[David L. Edsall]] on the faculty of the nascent [[Harvard School of Public Health]]<ref name=Sherwood/> in 1921<ref name=Sherwood/> or 1923.<ref name=Lehigh/> He studied, taught, and wrote textbooks and scholarly works on a variety of topics in industrial hygiene;<ref name=Sherwood/> the iron lung itself was originally designed in response to an industrial hygiene problem—coal gas poisoning<ref name=Sherwood/>—though it would become best known as a life-preserving treatment for [[poliomyelitis|polio]]. [[Charles Momsen]] credited Drinker "and his friends" for their assistance with gas-mixture experiments that ultimately made possible the rescue of the survivors of the [[USS Sailfish (SS-192)|USS ''Squalus'']] in 1939.<ref name=Momsen>Momsen, Charles B. "Rescue and Salvage of U.S.S. ''Squalus''." Lecture delivered to the Harvard Engineering Society on October 6, 1939. [http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq99-6.htm Text available online.] Accessed March 17, 2007.</ref> During [[World War II]], Drinker directed the industrial hygiene program for the [[United States Maritime Commission]].<ref name=Lehigh/> After the war, he advised the [[United States Atomic Energy Commission|Atomic Energy Commission]].<ref name=Lehigh/>
Drinker served as editor-in-chief of ''[[The Journal of Industrial Hygiene]]'' for over thirty years<ref name=Lehigh/> and, in 1942, as president of the [[American Industrial Hygiene Association]], to which he had belonged since its inception.<ref name=Sherwood/>
He retired from Harvard in 1960<ref name=Sherwood/> or 1961.<ref name=Lehigh/>
He was inducted into the US National Inventor's Hall of Fame in 2007.
He and his wife Susan<ref name=AIHAj>"Philip Drinker." ''American Industrial Hygiene Association journal.'' May 1973: 34(5), 179-181. [http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/content/u30vhp102606xh27/fulltext.pdf Available online by subscription.]</ref> had a son, [[bioengineer]] [[Philip A. Drinker]].<ref name=Sallans>Sallans, Andrew. [http://historical.hsl.virginia.edu/ironlung/pg4.cfm "iron lung." online exhibit.] University of Virginia, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. 2005. Accessed March 18, 2007.</ref>
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