Title: Profiles in Science: Fred Lowe Soper

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Section/SPIG: Health Administration

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The National Library of Medicine has added the papers of public health expert Fred Lowe Soper to the Profiles in Science site, <http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/>. This site celebrates 20th century leaders in biomedical research and public health. It makes the archival collections of prominent scientists, physicians, and others who have advanced the scientific enterprise available to the public through modern digital technology.

Fred Soper was an American epidemiologist and public health administrator who won the Lasker Award in 1946.

It's really wonderful that Soper's work in public health is being acknowledged in this way. The other Profiles include such scientists as Linus Pauling, Joshua Lederberg and Barbara McClintock.

Submitted by Marj Cahn, Head, National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR), National Library of Medicine, NIH, HHS.