George Soper

George Albert Soper II (2 February 1870 – 17 June 1948) was an American sanitation engineer.

He received his degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1895 and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1899.

[2] He was described as 'Major, US Army', in the entry for 1907 in the New York City Department of Health and was identified by Centennial Newspaper for the discovery of the carrier, Typhoid Mary.

Mallon was tracked down by Soper and Dr. Sara Josephine Baker,[4] and was arrested by Ms. Willa Carey Noble, a bacteriologist at the research laboratories of the Public Health Department of New York City under William Hallock Park.

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