E. Converse Peirce 2nd

Edmund Converse Peirce 2nd, M.D. (October 9, 1917 Upper Montclair, New Jersey - August 8, 2003 Hancock Point, Maine) was Professor and Director of Hyperbaric Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City), from 1966 to 1991 when he retired. During his career, Dr. Peirce published over 150 research articles and is particularly notable for well-regarded contributions to the refinement of artificial circulatory technologies such as the membrane oxygenator. Converse grew up in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in the Quaker tradition. His father, Dr. George Peirce, M.D., Ph.D., was a physician and chemist (M.D., Johns Hopkins Medical School; Ph.D. University of Berlin, Germany), who was killed in a fire in the Colgate research...