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FILE NAME: Oil Industry and American Petroleum Institute (API) DATE: 1979 DOC#: API151 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Obituary - Dr. Wilhelm Hueper B& .. * MonMVlanuary). THE WASHINGTON POST Di*. Wilhelm Hueper, Retired Official Dies at 84 nm By Richard Pearson llis ot her awards i ncl ude the l!>V> -W aihine'.ton P o st-S taff W ri'.tr Rosenthal Award from the American MDr. Wilhelm, C. Hueper; 84, a retired official of the National Cancer Insiti- iute who was a pioneer in the study of .. tancer-causlhg agetits in'the envlf'oiv" merit died of cardiac arrest Thursday "VM Association foe Science and a -World Healthstudies. the Advancement of I()ti2 award from the Organual iou iur l a v at the Wisconsin Aveune Nursing \ Home. ..... .............~ \ In 19i3 t he edi t ors of Modern Medi. ci ne Voted him a di st i ngui shed aolilev . *-Frdm:l948, when he joined NCI, un me n t award for ' Ins i denti f i cat i on ut - ill.his retirement in 4864, he w4* chief carci nogeni c snl i stances and Ills un of the institute's environmental can-., daunted Courage m effecting control r e t r section. . of noxi ous environment;!, agent s In In : " Dr. Hueper conducted research into the cancer hazards of heavy metals, ' petroleum derivatives, synthetic hy - dJirdodglteivn.aetse^dandcopallastoicilss., asbestos, food r i - -. A colleague at the NCI once characT ^erlM R -Sr.H ueper as possessinEL 'Mn r lughdegree" the "ability to shomtand alarm." _ V "^^t-ExiEmpies of this included :asser tions that he made in the early 1960s ;;' Wal^OFTd'80 peFcent m^^ricer cases Would turn out to be environmental in origin. Although many considered him 1 I ^ j m alarmist at the time, authorities r how a^krtowl'edge that 70 to 90 per , V --.Vl- rS- ^ e n t'o f all cancer is related to enviroriirightal factors. 1J 02 P h o to v During the early 1950s, he helped DR. WILHELM C. HUEPER of lung cancer in workers in' the chromate producing industry. He directed re search that discovered that caroinogerijecohromateswerethosemostsolu- troversial in recent years, due to criti cism concerning the validity of large doses of drugs tollaboratory animals ile in water, and thus broken down in applying to small amounts of the e body. His works helped to lower drug to flttmans, Dr. Hueper con e eaneer Tate dramatically in the in- tinued to favor It. $ u s t f f r ^ - ; ' ; y 'AriCitKer''c6'wofkei' said Dr. Hueper $as "controversial and misunderI stood. He irritated the devil out of the r hierarchy of command." He once wrote that "The data from such tests are not necessarily unreal istic. Although most agents tested are either weak carcinogens or act in rein lively small doses, people may ingest \-- I.;.; ingout ahead of his time in advocat]gsi gig tighter laws and more thorough tb--the--possible--carcmcr- 'Scntc propertiK'of drug's; ...... He.testitled in favor Qf the Delaney Amendment, passed by1Congress in 1958, which barred substances known fio-induce cancer in animals from be ing used in drugs consumed by hu them over a period of many years. The cumulative effect might then par allel that of a massjwe dose." Iri 1975s DF. Hueper was given the National Institutes of Health Direc tor's Award. ;, The award . cited his research In * iuekemia, his pioneer work in chro mium research, and also hailed his book, `'Occupational Tumors and Al mans. lied Diseases," a standard text since , ; Although the law itself became con- Its publication in 1942. Benjamin Foer Milling Finn Official dustrj " Dr. Hueper was horn m Schwerin Germany, and eurned Ins mcdieal ilc gree at the University oi Kiel, lie be gan Ins eaneer research in Kuiopr in the early 1920s, where he publiKhed findings on Hie rise of l ong t i i i h i t ,n industrial eities. He c a m e to this country in 1923. and practiced medicine and tnuglit pathol ogy iri Chi cago and Ph ladcljdua tie fore j oi ni ng the d u l 'ont Company in Wi l mi ngt on, Del., in 1934 At dul'ont he charted a high inn d e n c c of bl adde r cancer nmnrrg~rtvr workers, isolating the carcinogenic s ubs t ance t hat caused it. l i e tell dn- Pont to join the Warner pharmaeeuti cal laboratories in New York in 103(1, remaining there until 1948 when tie catne to the National Cancer Institute After retiring from NCI he worked in projects to obtain fun is for persons stricken by cancer wlto had worked in professions that exposed them to a high degree of risk He pointed otit in a 197(5 inter'lew with The Washington Post. 1The whole financial burden of cancer hazards is carried by the general public nr ny the workers themselves." Dr. Hueper was among the firsi au thorities to cite a time lag id up in several decades between exposure to carcinogens and the outbreak of can cer symptoms. His professional memberships in cluded the American Society ot Kxpcrimenial Pathology, the American As socintion of Cancer llrseareli. the American College of Pathology, anil the American College if Preventive Medicine. He was the first President uf the American Society for the Study of Ar teriosclerosis. Survivors Include a son. Klaus, uf Bcthesdn, and one grandchild The family suggests that expres Benjamin W. Foer, 77, a reUred.vice sions of sympathy be in the form of president of Wilkins-Rogcrs. Inc., died Sunday atGeorge Washington Univer c ont ri but i ons to the Was hi ngt on Hu mane Society g*7 | I II I AN Studi }ilL fruii if.;; -Imlenl .,1 Ih,- I m Kensington^ i Uib.O! flo.-.ptthl uf injui res she evi dent Dei- i: S h e and two <; siruck near the eetieut Alenile KenMiigtun by . Miss Scott ha dent at Holy li, l i ripuleil in Cat l i on basebal l ;; school \t Ihe , w as captain of i era S h e pl ayed tl .and was ael Ki skatirvg-ttv ehe-n S h e was a ir. Andrew's Culpa Hotheads, wh en and had belon; Youth Fellimsli s u e a-, a n;i S u n n m s me and Mi s Walsi kiriibei ly L., an all of the home g r a m l p a i e n l s . 1Mr and Mrs I llethcsda The lumilv - i ons n[ -a mpai r o ntnbui rons to Memorial lun A n dre w s t nne< sity Hospital. He had sutfered iroin cancer. --Ifehad joined the rompany in 1927 when Wilkins-Rogers was a .small fit fSrntariam s 13r a t hs D U D D A l i r .U C U A D r . A O B T T C C I4D LAAC: B T M H M & 4 I