University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine - Scope Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Zin jlillzmuriam PROFESSOR GEORGE ARTHUR PIERSOL By Dr. Jolm C. Hcisler Professor George Arthur Picrsol died on August 7, 1924, after an illness which began in January, 19:31. The so11 of Dr. Jeremiah Morris Piersol and Dr. Mina Ellinger Piersol, he was born in Philadelphia in 1856. Dr. Piersol was graduated from the Polytechnic College of Pennsylvania with the degree of Civil Engineer in 187-1 and from the Medical School, of the University of Pennsylvania, in 1877. After receiving his medical degree, he specialized in Ophthalmology, practicising this branch of medicine for several years. His early inclination, however, toward anatomical research was evinced by his choice of the minute anatomy of the cornea as the subject of his graduation thesis, a paper which evoked the hearty commendation and aroused the interest of Joseph Leidy, then professor of anatomy in the University Medical School. In pursuit of this inclination, he spent several years in graduate work at the Universities of Berlin, Wurzburg and Vienna. Beginning the teaching of histology in the Medical School of the University as Assistant Demonstrator, in 1877, Dr. Piersol was appointed Demonstrator of His- tology in 1882 and Professor of Histology and Embryology in 1890. Upon the death of Professor Joseph Lcidy in 1891, he was made Professor of Anatomy, his in- cumbency continuing until his retirement in 19722, when he was made Emeritus Proiessor. 22