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Richard was born on March 18, 1872 in Fortress Monroe, Virginia, United States. He was the only son and eldest of two children of Lt. Colonel Richard Polk Strong and Marian Beaufort (Smith) Strong. His father joined the United States Army following his graduation from City College of New York in 1862 and remained in service after the Civil War.
Richard Pearson Strong attended Hopkins Grammar School and graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University with the degree Ph. B. in biology in 1893. Strong then entered the medical school of Johns Hopkins University, a member of the first class to matriculate. He was awarded the M. D. degree in 1897.
After medical school of Johns Hopkins University he served in the coveted position of resident physician at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1897 and 1898. During the Spanish-American War, he was an assistant surgeon, with the rank of first lieutenant in the United States Army. From 1899 to 1901, he established and directed the work of the Army Pathological Laboratory and served as president of the Board for the Investigation of Tropical Diseases in the Isthmus of Panama.
In 1901 he went to the Philippines where he made significant contributions, as both a soldier and a civilian, to medical research and education and the management of public health activities. Leaving the army while in Manila, he became director of the Biological Laboratories Bureau of Science (1901 - 1913), professor of tropical medicine at the College of Medicine and Surgery at the University of the Philippine Islands (1907 - 1913), and chief of medicine at the Philippine Islands General Hospital (1910 - 1913).
He remained in the Far East throughout this period, except for brief study in Berlin, at the university and the Institute for Infectious Diseases in 1903, winning an international reputation in medical research through his studies on dysentery, plague, cholera, and other diseases.
In 1911, he was acclaimed for both medical brilliance and personal courage after his work during an epidemic of pneumonic plague in Manchuria. Strong joined the faculty of medicine of Harvard University in 1913 as the first professor of tropical medicine, a position he held until his retirement in 1938.
During these years, he extended his international reputation through research, teaching, and medical administration under trying and dangerous circumstances. He led numerous expeditions to study tropical diseases in their natural habitat: to Peru (1913), the Amazon basin (1925), Liberia and the Belgian Congo (1926 - 1927, 1934), and Guatemala (1931 - 1932).
Many publications by Strong and his associates resulted from these expeditions, notably his monograph on onchocerciasis in Africa and America in 1934 and his two volumes on Liberia. Strong's investigations in the Amazon foreshadowed the Hylean Research Scheme of UNESCO. In 1938, he assumed responsibility for the foremost textbook in his field, Edward Stitt's Diagnostics and Treatment of Tropical Disease, which he rewrote after his retirement from Harvard. Strong also made important contributions to medical administration.
In 1915, he directed the Rockefeller Institute's expedition to Serbia to combat a typhus epidemic, and coordinated medical teams from several countries. Joining the American Expeditionary Force in 1917 as a member of the chief surgeon's staff, he and his group demonstrated that trench fever was transmitted by a louse. He directed the department of medical research for the American Red Cross in Paris (1918 - 1919) and for the League of Red Cross Societies in Geneva (1919 - 1920). In 1919, he organized the Inter-Allied Medical Conference at Cannes and made plans to improve public health throughout the world in time of peace.
He died of a heart attack in 1948.
Richard Pearson Strong served as director of tropical medicine at the Army Medical School in Washington through World War II. He was the leading specialist in tropical medicine of his generation. His publications appeared in journals and conference proceedings on three continents. He was decorated by the governments of China, Serbia, France, Great Britain, and the United States. Professional organizations throughout the world sought his leadership. In 1943 the American Foundation of Tropical Medicine named the Richard P. Strong medal in his honor and made him the first recipient of it.
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After his death, the Journal of Tropical Medicine predicted that "posterity will link his name with those of his great contemporaries, Manson, Ross, Gorgas and Reed".
According to British Medical Journal, Strong was a reserved man, with "a great capacity for friendship with those he liked".
He was married three times: in Manila, in 1900, to Eleanor E. MacKay, who died in 1914, in Ann Arbor, Michigan; in 1916 to Agnes Leas Freer, whom he divorced in 1935; and in London, in 1936, to Grace Nichols, who died in 1944.
