Apparatus 1957 for Oxygen Rebreathing Apparatus 1959 for use Under Water 1974 1974 for Underwater Work and Oil Trapping 1989 See also References External links Lambertsen Publications National Academy of Engineering listing The Environmental Biomedical Stress Data Center Brochure A long biography about him, and about the rebreather that he designed Images of his rebreather New York Times Obituary Christian J. Lambertsen Papers at Duke University Medical Center Archives 1917 births 2011 deaths American medical researchers United States Army personnel of World War II American underwater divers Diving engineers People from Scotch Plains, New Jersey People from Westfield, New Jersey Recipients of the Legion of Merit Rutgers University alumni Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School alumni United States Army Medical Corps officers Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania alumni University of Pennsylvania faculty Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Military personnel from New Jersey