Author: John P. Marbarger
Born: 2 September 1916
Died: 11 September 2006
Bio: Dr. John P. Marbarger was born in Palmyra, Pennsylvania, the child of a dentist. In 1934, he graduated from Palmyra High School. In 1938, he graduated from Lebanon Valley College, and in 1941, he obtained a Ph.D. in Physiology from John Hopkins University. He then served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Air Force during World War II, and in 1943, he married, and he and his wife Edith went on to have three children. After the war, he joined the faculty at the University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. He later joined the faculty at the University of Illinois Medical Center Campus in Chicago, IL, and remained there until 1980, when he retired as associate dean in the Graduate College. He edited the journal *Aerospace Medicine*.