Soper, Fred Lowe, 1893-1977

LC control no.	n 79006386
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Soper, Fred Lowe, 1893-1977 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Soper, Frederick Lowe, 1893-1977 Lowe Soper, Frederick, 1893-1977 Soper, Fred L., 1893-1977
Biography/History note	Fred L. Soper (1893-1977) was an American epidemiologist and public health administrator who won a Lasker Award in 1946 for organizing successful campaigns to eradicate yellow fever and malaria between 1927 and 1945. He also made key contributions to the control of typhus fever during World War II, and served as director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, (executive agency of the Pan American Health Organization) from 1947 to 1959. <http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov>
Birth date	1893
Death date	1977
Affiliation	University of Chicago Rockefeller Foundation Pan American Health Organization
Profession or occupation	Epidemiologists
Found in	Anopheles gambiae no Brasil, c2011: t.p. (Fred L. Soper) p. 15 (Frederick Lowe Soper (1893-1977); graduated in medicine, Univ. of Chicago in 1918; came to Brazil in 1920 as a Rockefeller Foundation coordinator; executive director, Pan American Health Organization until 1959)