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Robert (Bob) Bartlett (born May 8, 1939) is an American physician and medical researcher who is credited with developing a lifesaving heart-lung technology known as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). He is an emeritus professor of surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School.
Bob Bartlett agreed on the spot. This was the beginning of ten years of Arctic service and three attempts at the North Pole alongside the inimitable, complex, and controversial Robert Peary. The 1898 voyage offered enough excitement and drama for an ordinary person’s lifetime, but Bob Bartlett—even in his early twenties— was hardly ordinary.
Captain Bob Bartlett (right) and Robert Edwin Peary (left). Battle Harbour, Labrador. 1909. This image is in the public domain via Wikicommons. But Bartlett was the far superior navigator, an expert with a sextant, able to take observations and confirm their position and provide definitive proof that they’d reached the pole.
May 1, 1979 · Hardcover – May 1, 1979. Claus-M. Naske has written the first biography of the man who helped to make Alaska the forty-ninth state and who served as one of Alaska's first senators. More than a regional political history, the story of Bob Bartlett involves his opposition to U.S. involvement in Vietnam and his early warnings about the dangers ...
- Claus Naske
Robert Abram Bartlett was born on August 15, 1875 in Brigus, Newfoundland. At the age of fifteen his mother sent Bartlett to a Methodist college to become a minister, but the sea was in his blood. He preferred to work the six long years required to earn the right to captain a ship. After Bartlett was awarded his mariner's papers, his uncle ...
Mar 28, 2017 · “Bob Bartlett was a transformational L.A. County leader who was committed to making our entire region a better place to live,” said John Fasana, Metro Board Chair and Mayor Pro Tem of the city ...
Bob Bartlett. Actor: The Viking. Born in Brigus Newfoundland in 1875, Captain Bartlett followed his family's profession of fishing and seal hunting. In 1905 he was appointed to command Robert E. Perry's ship Roosevelt for the explorer's expedition to find the North Pole.
