Thomas Morgan Rotch | |
Birth Date: | 9 December 1849 |
Birth Place: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Death Place: | Boston, Massachusetts |
Education: | Harvard Medical School |
Occupation: | Pediatrician |
Signature: | Signature of Thomas Morgan Rotch (1849–1914).png |
Thomas Morgan Rotch (1849–1914) was the president of the American Pediatric Society for 1890–91[1] and America's first full professor of pediatrics.[2] He was the great-grandson of Samuel Powel Griffitts.[3] [4]
Thomas Morgan Rotch was born in Philadelphia on December 9, 1849.[4] He graduated from Harvard College in 1870, and from Harvard Medical School in 1874.[3]
He died at his home in Boston on March 9, 1914.[5]
The Rotch sign is named after him.