Paul Herman Felix Kuypers (4 June 1939,

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island and later in Ierapetra, Crete. He arrived in Ierapetra in 1966 and co-operated with local farmers where he introduced greenhouse techniques revolutionizing agricultural production procedures. He settled in the town of Ierapetra along with his wife and their child. He died in a car accident on the highway near Ierapetra in 1971. Some years after his death the people of Ierapetra erected a bust of him in his memory on the road to

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. The Municipality of Ierapetra dedicated a street to his name.Eleni Papadopouloy - Kontopodi, Apo tous anemofraktes sta thermokipia, I symbolh toy Pavlou Koupers.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kuypers, Paul 1939 births 1971 deaths People from Overbetuwe Ierapetra Road incident deaths in Greece Dutch agronomists 20th-century agronomists 20th-century Dutch people