Otto Gustav Edholm (1909–1985) was a British physiologist who studied human responses to the environment.
[4] Born in 1909, Edholm was educated at Tonbridge School and studied medicine at St George's Hospital.
[2] He was appointed as a lecturer in physiology at Queen's University Belfast where he developed a partnership with Professor Henry Barcroft.
In the Second World War, Edholm and Barcroft studied the circulatory changes in man caused by severe haemorrhage.
He was invited to set up a Division of Human Physiology for the Medical Research Council at the National Institute for Medical Research in Hampstead, where Edholm and his team investigated survival in hot and cold climates, and later studied high altitudes and cold water immersion.