# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louise-pearce
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:55:24.273Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louise-pearce"
name: "Louise Pearce"
slug: "louise-pearce"
description: "Louise Pearce was an 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."
tagline: "American pathologist (1885-1959)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Photograph_of_Louise_Pearce_(1885-1959)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1885-03-05"
deathDate: "1959-08-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.31
  momentum:             6.621621621621621
  historical:           8.142189333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Pearce"
    title: "Louise Pearce"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B2_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3"
    title: "لويز بيرس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B2_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3"
    title: "لويز بيرس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لوئیز پریس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Pearce"
    title: "Louise Pearce"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Pearce"
    title: "Louise Pearce"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Pearce"
    title: "Louise Pearce"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Pearce"
    title: "Louise Pearce"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Pearce"
    title: "Louise Pearce"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Pearce"
    title: "Louise Pearce"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18327563"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump