Physician
Centurion, 1907–1913
Born 17 September 1868 in Baltimore, Maryland
Died 27 February 1913 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Green Mount Cemetery
, Baltimore, Maryland
Proposed by Edward G. Janeway and T. Mitchell Prudden
Elected 6 April 1907 at age thirty-eight
Century Memorial
Philip Hanson Hiss, Jr., who died at the early age of forty-four, had already made for himself an enviable reputation as a bacteriologist. He had done excellent work in the identification of typhoid and other bacilli; and had also succeeded in utilizing the white corpuscles of the blood in infectious illnesses. The text-book upon Bacteriology which he wrote in coöperation with Dr. Zinsser is widely used and highly regarded. Hiss was a man who never exploited half-attained results in the broad sheets of Sunday newspapers. His statements were restricted to proved conclusions; and what he did was as if done finally. At the time of his death, he was Professor of Bacteriology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Henry Osborn Taylor
1914 Century Association Yearbook
