Fred Lowe Soper

Fred Soper (1928)

Fred Lowe Soper (born December 13, 1893 in Hutchinson , Kansas, † February 9, 1977 in Wichita , Kansas) was an American doctor .

Life

Fred Lowe Soper was the third of eight children to the married couple Socrates and Mary Ann Soper. He studied medicine at Rush Medical College and after graduating in 1918 went to the Rockefeller Foundation for 27 years .

From January 1920 Soper was active in the fight against hookworms in Brazil . With small interruptions, he continued this activity until 1927. a also in Paraguay . Between 1927 and 1942 he was committed to fighting yellow fever and malaria . One of his greatest successes was the extermination of Anopheles gambiae in Brazil. From 1942 to 1946 he was involved in the fight against typhus within the US Army , first in North Africa and later in Europe. Between 1947 and 1959 he was director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau . Until 1972 he was active as a consultant in Pakistan and Bangladesh , as well as for the Public Health Service .

Fred Lowe Soper was married to Juliet Snider from December 27, 1919.

Publications (selection)

• Ventures in world health: the memoirs of Fred Lowe Soper . Washington, Pan American Health Organization, Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office of the World Health Organization, 1977.
• J. Austin Kerr (ed.): Building the health bridge: selections from the work of Fred L. Soper . Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1970.
• Fred. L. Soper, D. Bruce Wilson, Servulo Lima and Waldemar Sá Antunes: The organization of permanent nation-wide anti-Aedes Aegypti measures in Brazil . New York, The Rockefeller Foundation, 1943.
• Fred L. Soper and D. Bruce Wilson: Anopheles gambiae in Brazil: 1930 to 1940 . New York, Rockefeller Foundation, 1943.

Web links

• Profiles in Science (National Library of Medicine): The Fred L. Soper Papers.
• The Mosquito Killer. In: The New Yorker . July 2, 2001.