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
