Peoples selected one of 10 outstanding young Americans

Lt. Col. George E. Peoples, M.D., a resident of Fulton, has been selected as one of Ten Outstanding Young Americans for 2001 by the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce.

The award is presented annually to Americans with exceptional achievements and who have demonstrated service to humanity.

Peoples, 38, a surgical oncologist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, has discovered and developed vaccines that have proven applicable to a wide variety of cancers, according to the medical center.

Peoples earned a bachelor's degree from the U.S. Military Academy and a doctor of medicine degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

He and his wife, Kathleen, have five children.