Awards & Winners

Fred Soper

Date of Birth 13-December-1893
Place of Birth Kansas
(United States of America, Midwestern United States, Contiguous United States)
Nationality United States of America
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.

Awards by Fred Soper

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1946


Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service
(For administrative achievement in controlling yellow fever and malaria through a new principle of species eradication of insect carriers.)