User:Pbsouthwood/Robert D. Workman

(Get middle name for disambiguation) Robert Workman

Robert D. Workman was a medical doctor with the rank of Captain in the US Navy Medical Corps, and a decompression researcher for the United States Navy Experimental Diving Unit who developed an algorithm for calculating decompression schedules based on a dissolved gas model and M-values for the tissue compartments which varied by compartment and with depth. The term "M-value" (for maximum value)was coined by Workman in the mid-1960's, and is defined for a given ambient pressure at the maximum value of absolute inert gas partial pressure that can be tolerated by a hypothetical tissue compartment without producing observable symptoms of decompression sickness.