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Wetsuit's Inventor Dies

Fri, 2008-05-09 12:52 — ABN

By LiveScience Staff
posted: 09 May 2008 ET

Undersea divers would still be shivering and facing a high risk for hypothermia if it weren't for Hugh Bradner, inventor of the first wetsuit. Bradner, a renowned physicist and professor emeritus at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography died May 5, 2008, in San Diego after a prolonged illness. He was 92.

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