Norman Topping

Norman Topping (1908 - 18 November 1997) was the President of the University of Southern California between 1958 and 1970. He succeeded Fred D. Fagg, Jr., and was succeeded by John R. Hubbard. He was chancellor between 1971 and 1980. He became emeritus chancellor in 1980.

Dr. Topping was an BA and MD alumnus of USC and worked at the U.S. Public Health Service on the typhus vaccine used in World War II by more than fifteen million United States, Canadian, and British soldiers, a treatment still in use today. He served in the Coast Guard. Later he helped develop the first effective treatment against Rocky Mountain spotted fever. He was an associate director of the NIH and Assistant Surgeon General from 1948 to 1952. Topping was vice president for medical affairs at the University of Pennsylvania from 1952 to 1958.

USC's Norman Topping Student Center was named in his honor.

External links

• http://www.usc.edu/about/factbook/history/ USC History
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow890Y9gl9I&feature=related/ Norman Topping Interview on YouTube

Academic offices
Preceded by Fred D. Fagg, Jr.	President of the University of Southern California 1958-1970	Succeeded by John R. Hubbard

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Name	Topping, Norman
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Date of birth	1908
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Date of death	18 November 1997
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