Maurice M. Pechet, HMS lecturer on medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, was a pioneering scientist and physician whose work in the 1950s helped lead to development of the now widely-used steroid Prednisone, died in his sleep from complications of pneumonia March 5 in his Cambridge home. He was 94.
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