Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Richard Mills Pearce
Professor of Research Medicine
Centurion, 1919–1930
Proposed by
Jerome Davis Greene and Simon Flexner
Jerome Davis Greene and Simon Flexner
born
March 3, 1874
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
died
February 16, 1930
New York (Manhattan), New York
New York (Manhattan), New York
elected
June 7, 1919
Age forty-five
Age forty-five
buried
Maple Hill Cemetery,
Dorset, Vermont
Dorset, Vermont
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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
