Professor of Research Medicine
Centurion, 1919–1930
Born 3 March 1874 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Died 16 February 1930 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Maple Hill Cemetery, Dorset, Vermont
Proposed by Jerome Davis Greene and Simon Flexner
Elected 7 June 1919 at age forty-five
Century Memorial
Richard Mills Pearce was one of our notable pathologists and bacteriologists; his progress in the development of medical education was very rapid. Professor of research medicine in the University of Pennsylvania at the age of thirty-five, Dr. Pearce became the general director of medical education for the Rockefeller foundation ten years afterward.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1931 Century Association Yearbook