Fred Soper
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1893 – 1977
Who was Fred Soper?
Frederick Lowe Soper was an American epidemiologist.
Born in Hutchinson, Kansas, His first two degrees were received from the University of Kansas, an AB in 1914 and his Masters of Science in 1916. He received a doctorate from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.Soper spent the better part of his career working for the Rockefeller Foundation. Fred Soper's best-known project was known as the Global Malaria Eradication Program.
Fred Soper was featured by journalist Malcolm Gladwell in a July 2, 2001 New Yorker article titled "The Mosquito Killer."
He died in Wichita, Kansas at the age of 83.
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- Born
- Dec 13, 1893
Kansas - Nationality
- United States of America
- Died
- Feb 9, 1977
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on July 23, 2013
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