Background
Traub, Robert S. was born on October 26, 1916 in New York City. Son of Dezso S. and Jeannette (Moses) Traub.
Traub, Robert S. was born on October 26, 1916 in New York City. Son of Dezso S. and Jeannette (Moses) Traub.
Bachelor of Science, City College of New York, 1938; Master of Science, Cornell Univercity, 1939; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Illinois, 1947.
Commissioned First lieutenant, United States Army, 1942;
advanced through grades to colonel, United States Army
entomologist, United States Army and United States Typhus Commission, India, Burma, 1943-1945;
chief department entomology and parasitology, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, 1945-1955;
field director, United States Army Medical Research Teams, Malaya, Korea, Borneo, 1948-1953;
commanding officer, United States Army Medical Research Unit, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, 1955-1959;
interim chief preventive medicine branch, Army Medical Research and Development Command, Washington, 1959-1962;
retired, United States Army, 1962;
field director, U. Maryland. Medical Research Teams, Ethiopia, New Guinea, Pakistan, 1962-1983;
from professor to professor emeritus, U. Maryland. School Medicine, Baltimore, since 1962.
Member Armed Forces Epidemiological Board Communications on Immunization, Hemorrhagic Fever and Rickettsial Diseases, Washington, 1948-1973. Consultant World Health Organization, National Institutes of Health, United States Army and Naval Medical Research Units and Research and Development Commands, Washington and overseas, since 1950.
Fellow Royal Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Royal Entomological Society, American Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (Hoogstraal medal 1989), Washington Academy of Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Renée Charlotte Gluck, August 18, 1939. Children: Jeannette Roberta (deceased), Roger Dennis.
