Fuller, Solomon C. (Solomon Carter), 1872-1953

LC control no.	nr 98011911
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Fuller, Solomon C. (Solomon Carter), 1872-1953 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Fuller, Solomon Carter, 1872-1953 Fuller, S.C., 1872-1953
Birth date	1872-08-11
Death date	1953-01-16
Affiliation	Boston University. School of Medicine Livingstone College Westborough State Hospital for the Insane
Profession or occupation	Psychiatrists Pathologists
Found in	Meta Warrick Fuller photograph collection, 187?-1976 [GR]: verso and recto of photographs Solomon C. Fuller, S.C. Fuller) Encycl. of African-Amer. culture and hist., 1996 v. 2, p. 1081 (Solomon Carter Fuller; b. Aug. 11, 1872, Monrovia, Liberia, d. Jan. 16, 1953, Framingham, Mass.; psychiatrist, neurologist, researcher, professor; married to sculptor Meta Warrick Fuller) African American National Biography, accessed January 23, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Fuller, Solomon Carter; pathologist, psychiatrist; born 11 August 1872 in Monrovia, Liberia; AB from Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina (1893); MD at Boston University School of Medicine (1897); was chief pathologist and consultant at Westborough State Hospital for the Insane; instructorship in pathology at Boston University (1899); concentrated on photography of thin sections of brain tissue, employing a microtome, microscope, and camera to search for connections between mental disorder and organic disease; began private psychotherapy practice out of home; published papers on the disease named for his German mentor Alzheimer; identified the ninth case of Alzheimer's disease (1911); associate professor of neuropathology and later of neurology at Boston University (1919, 1921); chair of the BU's department of neurology (1928-1933); died 16 January 1953 in Framingham, Massachusetts, United States)