Person    | Female  Born /3/1889  Died 25/12/1978

Doctor Innes Pearse

Medical practitioner and biologist. Born Innes Hope Pearse in Purley, Surrey. She worked on thyroid research at the Royal Free Hospital, with George Scott Williamson who she later married. Together they developed the 'Peckham Experiment' at the Pioneer Health Centre.  Died at Rotherfield, East Sussex.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Doctor Innes Pearse

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