Call Number:

WM.SC.030

Repository:

Drexel University: College of Medicine Legacy Center

Extent:

1.0 folder

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

George Corner, Ph.D. manuscript, Drexel University College of Medicine Archives.

Date:

1977

Creator:

Corner, George Washington, 1889-1981

Abstract:

The collection contains a photocopy of a typed manuscript about Louise Pearce, M.D., past president of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania and noted scientist, written by Corner, past president of the American Philosophical Society. The article was submitted to 2nd edition of Notable American Women.

Corner was an anatomist, endocrinologist, historian, Vice-President, Editor and Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society (1940). He was a dedicated scientist and was involved with innumerable scientific and scholarly organizations, many in an official capacity. Some of those for which there is significant material include; American Assoc. for the History of Medicine, American Assoc. of Anatomists (GWC, Sec. and Pres.), American Philosophical Society, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Institute for Sex Research Inc., International Anatomic Nomenclature Committee (1951-1960, chairman), National Assoc. for Retarded Children Inc., National Research Council Committee for Research in Problems of Sex (chair), Oxford University (Eastman visiting professorship, 1952-1953), Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Rockefeller Institute, Sex Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS), University of Rochester, and Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology. (Biographical information provided by the American Philosophical Society)