Louise Pearce date of birth:
March 5, 1885
How old was Louise Pearce when died?
74
Where was Louise Pearce born?
Winchester, Massachusetts, US
When did Louise Pearce die?
August 10, 1959
Where did Louise Pearce die?
New York City, NY
Why did Louise Pearce die?
Heart Attack
Is Louise Pearce gay or straight?
Lesbian
What is Louise Pearce's ethnicity?
White
What is Louise Pearce nationality?
American
What is Louise Pearce's occupation?
Pathologist
Short Biography
Louise Pearce (March 5, 1885 – August 10, 1959) was a American pathologist at the Rockefeller Institute who helped develop a treatment for African sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis). Sleeping sickness was a fatal epidemic which had devastated areas of Africa, killing two-thirds of the population of the Uganda protectorate between 1900 and 1906 alone. With chemists Walter Abraham Jacobs and Michael Heidelberger and pathologist Wade Hampton Brown, Pearce worked to develop and test arsenic-based drugs for its treatment. In 1920, Louise Pearce traveled to the Belgian Congo where she designed and carried out a drug testing protocol for human trials to establish tryparsamide's safety, effectiveness, and optimum dosage. Tryparsamide proved successful in combating the fatal epidemic, curing 80% of cases.