Solomon Carter Fuller

Solomon Carter Fuller was a distinguished Liberian neurologist, psychiatrist, pathologist, and lecturer who lived from August 1, 1872, until January 16, 1953. He was raised in Monrovia, Liberia, but attended college and received his medical degree (MD) there. He completed his psychiatric training at Munich, Germany, after which he came back to the United States and spent the most of his professional life at Westborough State Hospital in Westborough, Massachusetts.

Fuller joined the Boston University School of Medicine faculty in 1919 and began teaching pathology there. Over the course of his career, he made substantial contributions to the understanding of Alzheimer's disease. He also worked as a doctor, neurologist, and psychiatrist in private practice.

Fuller worked as a neuropathologist at Westborough State Hospital in Westborough, Massachusetts, for the most of his career. Before being chosen by Alois Alzheimer to carry out ground-breaking research at the Royal Psychiatric Hospital at the University of Munich, under the direction of Emil Kraepelin, he finished a two-year internship in neuropathology there. He conducted groundbreaking studies on the physical alterations that Alzheimer's sufferers' brains go through while they are there. He went back to Westborough State Hospital with his new information about a year later. The Westborough State Hospital Papers, a journal that started disseminating findings from regional research, was created and edited by him.