Louise Pierce, ca. 1920 and John Hopkins University Louise Pearce was a physician-pathologist who in 1913 became the first woman appointed to a research position at Rockefeller. She trained at Stanford University (A.B., 1907) and Johns Hopkins University (M.D., 1912). After working for many years at the Rockefeller Institute, she became president of Women\u27s Medical College in Philadelphia, 1946-1951. Pearce received honorary doctorates from Wilson College (1947), Beaver College (1948), Bucknell University (1950), Skidmore (1950), and Women\u27s Medical College in Philadelphia (1952). Idea, design: Olga Nilova Photograph by Lubosh Stepanekhttps://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/five-rockefeller-trailblazers/1001/thumbnail.jp