Eugene Floyd DuBois (June 4, 1882 – February 12, 1959) was an American physician and teacher, remembered for his work on the physiology of fever and heat production.
His grandmother Mary Ann Delafield DuBois founded a hospital in New York City in 1854.
[2] During World War II, DuBois was a captain in the United States Naval Reserve, where he taught gas warfare training and defense, aviation medicine, and deep diving and submarine ventilation.
Before the advent of nuclear powered submarines, DuBois spent 96 hours submerged, the record for the time.
[2] DuBois mapped out basal metabolism for aging men, which he published in 1916.