Research foundation director and Pfeiffer chair benefactor dies
BY JOYCE THOMAS
George Robert Pfeiffer, JD, 83, of Banning, Calif., died March 20 of a stroke. A graduate of Stanford law school, class of 1949, Pfeiffer directed the Gustavus and Louise Pfeiffer Research Foundation and served on the nonprofit board for more than 45 years including as president and vice president.
The Emma Pfeiffer Merner Professorship in the Medical Sciences at Stanford – held by professor and chair of radiology Gary Glazer, MD, and previously by emeritus professor and Nobel laureate Arthur Kornberg, MD – was endowed in 1963 with a grant from the Pfeiffer research foundation. The foundation also provided support for the Pfeiffer minority scholars program and other research.
Until his retirement in 1992, Pfeiffer practiced general contract, real estate and family law in Los Angeles and Redlands from 1950.
He was a nephew of the late Gustavus Pfeiffer, an industrialist and philanthropist. The endowed chair honors Gustavus Pfeiffer’s late sister Emma Pfeiffer Merner. The Merner and Pfeiffer families have a long association with Stanford extending over three generations and including several family members who graduated from the university.
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