[1] During his career, Peirce published over 150 research articles and is notable for his well-regarded contributions to the refinement of artificial circulatory technologies including the membrane oxygenator.
Born in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, Converse grew up in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in the Quaker tradition.
He then went to Baltimore, Maryland, where from 1948 to 1954 he was successively Assistant Professor, Anatomy, Johns Hopkins Medical School, and Surgical Fellow and Surgeon at the USPHS Hospital there.
the Society of Thoracic Surgeons [2], and a distinguished Fellow of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), Distinguished Fellow Archived June 14, 2006, at the Wayback Machine Peirce published a total of 150 formal peer-reviewed scientific papers.
In addition to continuing clinical and experimental studies on arterial catheterization, and papers on various clinical and experimental problems of cardiac physiology, the series of papers reporting the artificial organ work is: