Gorgas

American  

[gawr-guhs] / ˈgɔr gəs /

noun

1. William Crawford, 1854–1920, U.S. physician and epidemiologist: chief sanitary officer of the Panama Canal 1904–13; surgeon general of the U.S. Army 1914–18.

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Gorgas Scientific  

/ gôr′gəs /

1. American army surgeon who directed programs to eradicate the Aedes aegypti mosquito in Havana, Cuba (1901), and in the Panama Canal Zone (1904–1906). The mosquito had been shown by Dr. Walter Reed and others to be responsible for the transmission of yellow fever.

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Example Sentences

Her husband, Confederate Gen. Josiah Gorgas, was the school’s eighth president and librarian; she succeeded him as librarian after he retired.

From Washington Times

Al.com reports the electric utility’s parent company, Southern Company, disclosed in a recent regulatory document plans to recover investment costs from William Crawford Gorgas Electric Generating Plant through customers’ electric bills.

From Washington Times

Alabama Power said in a news release Wednesday that it will close the Gorgas plant northwest of Birmingham, mostly because of federal rules on the handling of coal ash and wastewater.

From Washington Times

For viro-immunologist Sandra López Vergès, the challenges of starting her own group at the Gorgas Memorial Institute for Health Studies in Panama City after 14 years abroad centred more on amassing basic lab staples.

From Nature

Since then, the tradition has progressed to the chimes steps, gone around the east and west sides and continued north toward Gorgas Library.

From Washington Times