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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Sukhamay Lahiri Papers
Creator:
Lahiri, Sukhamay
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0759
Physical Description:
4.25 Linear feet
(10 archives boxes, 3 oversize folders)
Physical Description:
7.6 GB
of digital files
Date (inclusive): 1967-2009
Abstract: Papers of physiologist Sukhamay Lahiri, documenting his research in oxygen sensing and high altitude physiology. Lahiri participated
in the Silver Hut Expedition of 1960-1961 and the American Medical Research Expedition to Everest in 1981. The collection
includes correspondence, writings, data, laboratory notebooks, photographs, and digital files.
Languages:
English
.
Scope and Content of Collection
Papers of physiologist Sukhamay Lahiri, documenting his research in oxygen sensing and high altitude physiology. Lahiri participated
in the Silver Hut Expedition of 1960-1961 and the American Medical Research Expedition to Everest in 1981. The collection
includes correspondence, writings, data, laboratory notebooks, photographs, and digital files.
Arranged in six series: 1) BIOGRAPHICAL, 2) CORRESPONDENCE, 3) CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA, 4) WRITINGS, 5) RESEARCH, 6) PHOTOGRAPHS
AND DIGITAL FILES.
Sukhamay (Larry) Lahiri was born April 1, 1933 in Natore, India (now in Bangladesh). He attended Presidency College at the
University of Calcutta, where he received a bachelor's degree with honors in physiology in 1951, a master's degree in 1953,
and a D. Phil. in 1956. Lahiri received a second D. Phil. in physiology from Oxford University in 1959. Returning to Calcutta
University, he worked as an assistant professor of physiology until moving to the United States in 1965. Lahiri was employed
as assistant professor of physiology at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center and then as senior research
associate at Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center Cardiovascular Institute in Chicago. In 1969, Lahiri was hired as associate
professor, then professor of physiology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
Known as one of the world's leading researchers in oxygen sensing and homeostasis, Lahiri began his high altitude studies
in 1960 as a physiologist on Sir Edmund Hillary's Himalayan Scientific and Mountaineering Expedition, also known as the Silver
Hut Expedition. Four years later Lahiri was scientific leader for Hillary's Second School House Expedition, followed by the
World Health Organization Physiological Expedition in the Himalayas, two research expeditions to the Peruvian Andes, and an
expedition to Solu Khumbu. His last expedition was the American Medical Research Expedition to Everest in 1981, which conducted
physiological research on five climbers at the summit of Mt. Everest.
Lahiri's research included studies of the respiratory responses of high altitude residents of the Himalayas and the Peruvian
Andes, and studies of the carotid body, or primary oxygen sensing organ in the body. He served as associate editor of the
Journal of Applied Physiology and president of the International Society for Arterial Chemoreception, and he organized international symposia in the physiological
sciences. He was the recipient of a Merit Award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the Humboldt Award from
the Alexander Humboldt Foundation in Germany. Sukhamay Lahiri continued his research at the University of Pennsylvania until
shortly before his death on May 2, 2009.
Sukhamay Lahiri Papers. MSS 759. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Acquired 2013
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Altitude, Influence of
Acclimatization
Adaptation (Physiology)
Stress (Physiology)
Lahiri, Sukhamay -- Archives