Background
Gerberg, Eugene Jordan was born on June 1, 1919 in New York City. Son of Morris and Bessie (Ehrlich) Gerberg.
Gerberg, Eugene Jordan was born on June 1, 1919 in New York City. Son of Morris and Bessie (Ehrlich) Gerberg.
Born June 1, 1919 in Brooklyn, New York, Gerberg completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Entomology in 1939, and then a Master of Science degree in 1941, both at Cornell University, Ithaca, New New York
In 1941, Gerberg accepted a commission as First Lieutenant in the United States. Public Health Service. His first assignment was with the Malaria Control in War Areas (MCWA) unit at New Smyrna Beach, Florida, established to control malaria around military training bases in areas where mosquitoes were abundant, to prevent reintroduction of malaria into the civilian population by mosquitoes feeding on malaria-infected soldiers. MCWA, the forerunner of the United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, also trained state and local health department officials in malaria control strategies and techniques.
In 1943, Gerberg was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the United States. Army Sanitary Corps and assigned as Assistant Camp Medical Inspector for Camp Lee, Virginia, charged with ridding the barracks of an infestation of bed bugs so severe it had received Congressional attention.
After the war, he transferred to the United States. Army Reserves to continue his military service. In 1946, Gerberg co-founded Insect Control & Research in Baltimore, Maryland, a business venture that became highly successful for him and his partners.
In 1954, he completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree in entomology and plant pathology at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. He authored the first United States. Public Health Service pictorial key for the identification of anopheline mosquito larvae for the national malaria control program (1943), a revision of the New World species of powder post beetles of the family Lyctidae (1957), a manual for mosquito rearing and experimental techniques (1970), a manual of Florida butterflies (1989), and a bibliography of publications dealing with repellents effective against blood-feeding arthropods and leeches (2001).
Foreign many years, he single-handedly updated and published the World Directory of Arthropod Vector Research & Control Specialists on an annual basis.
In the 1990s, Doctor Gerberg retired as a Colonel from the United States. Army Medical Service Corps and an Adjunct Professor of Entomology at the University of Florida, but remained active in the entomology community. He died in Gainesville, Florida, on December 19, 2011, at the age of 92.
Member United States Trade & Investment Mission to Nigeria, West. Africa, 1961, Pakistan, 1968. Served to colonel United States Army Reserve. Member Entomological Society American (honorary.
Member), American Registry Professional Entomologists (Medical/Veterinary Entomologist of Year award), American Mosquito Control Association (honorary, Meritorious Service award), Royal Society Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, American Society Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, Biological.
Clubs: Explorers, Cosmos.
Married Josephine Elizabeth Vick, June 21, 1941. Children: Gary V. (deceased), Jordan V., Jon A., Glen G., Gail M. President.