[sdeer]

I think the work on decompression was done by his father? His father did experiment on both himself and his son.

His uncle was the Liberal Party politician Richard Haldane who was the secretary of war for UK just before WWI and carried out some reforms which were pretty important in setting how the British army fought in the early part of the great war.

[ggm]

J.B.S. by Ronald Clark is a good biography.