Fuller, Solomon Carter (1872-1953)

US physician, neurologist, psychiatrist, and pathologist. He worked on degenerative brain diseases including Alzheimer's disease, which he attributed to causes other than arteriosclerosis; this was supported by medical researchers in 1953.

Fuller was born in Monrovia, Liberia, and educated at Livingstone College, Salisbury, North Carolina; Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, New York; and Boston University School of Medicine, where he became a faculty member 1899. He practised medicine in Boston and at his home in Framingham and taught pathology, neurology, and psychology at the University until he retired as professor emeritus 1937. Fuller is best known for his work in neuropathology and psychiatry. His postgraduate studies included training at the Carnegie Laboratory, New York, and, 1904-05, at the University of Munich under Dr Alzheimer.