John Farquhar Fulton

John Farquhar Fulton (November 1, 1899 – May 29, 1960) was an American neurophysiologist and historian of science. He received numerous degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University. He taught at Magdalen College School of Medicine at Oxford and later became the youngest Sterling Professor of Physiology at Yale University. His main contributions were in primate neurophysiology and history of science.

Early life and education John Farquhar Fulton was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, as the youngest of six children to Edith Stanley Wheaton and John Farquhar Fulton, an ophthalmologist who helped found the University of Minnesota. along with Harvey Williams Cushing and Arnold Klebs, the Yale Department of History of Medicine (with Harvey Williams Cushing and Arnold Klebs in 1951),

During his time as president of the History of Science Society, he was a member of the editorial board of its historical journal Isis Fulton's team's findings influenced Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz, who developed the medical practice of the frontal lobotomy in humans and who won the Nobel Prize for his work in 1949. 1949 elected to the American Philosophical Society 1955 John Fulton Medal from the Society for the History of Medical Science

Publications Books Fulton, J. F. (1926) Muscular Contraction and the Reflex Control of Movement. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore. Fulton, J. F. (1930) Selected Readings in the History of Physiology. Charles C. Thomas, Baltimore. Fulton, J. F. (1938) Physiology of the Nervous System. Oxford University Press, London. Fulton, J. F. (1944) A Visit to Le Puy-en-Velay by Harvey Cushing. The Rowfant Club, Cleveland. Fulton, J. F. (1946) Harvey Cushing: A Biography. Charles Thomas, Springfield. Fulton, John F. and Madeleine E. Stanton (1946)The centennial of surgical anesthesia: an annotated catalogue of books and pamphlets bearing on the early history of surgical anesthesia, exhibited at the Yale Medical Library, October 1946. New York: Henry Schuman, Fulton, J. F. & Thomson, E. H. (1947) Benjamin Silliman, 1779-1864, Pathfinder in American Science. Schuman, New York. Fulton, J. F. (1949) Functional Localization in the Frontal Lobes and Cerebellum. Clarendon Press, Oxford. Fulton, J. F. (1951) Frontal Lobotomy and Affective Behavior: A Neurological Analysis. W. W. Norton, New York. Fulton, J. F. (Ed) (1951) Decompression Sickness, Caisson Sickness, Divers and Fliers Bends and Related Syndromes. Saunders, Philadelphia. Fulton, J. F. (1951) The Great Medical Bibliographers. A Study in Humanism. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. Fulton, John F., and Madeline E. Stanton (1953) Michael Servetus, humanist and martyr. New York. Fulton, John F. and Madeleine E. Stanton (1954) "Bibliography of Galvani's writings on animal electricity," in Luigi Galvani, Commentary on the effects of electricity on muscular motion...together with a facsimile of Galvani's De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari commentarius (1791), and a bibliography of the editions and translations of Galvani's book... Norwalk, CT: Burndy Library, pp. 159–171. Fulton, John F., Frederick G. Kilgour and Madeline E. Stanton (1962) Yale Medical Library: the formation and growth of its Historical Library. New Haven. Articles Fulton, J. F. "Robert Boyle and His Influence on Thought in the Seventeenth Century," Isis, 1932, 18:77-102. Fulton, J. F. "A Bibliography of the Honourable Robert Boyle," Proceedings of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1932, 3:1-172. Fulton, J. F. & Kennard, M. "A study of flaccid and spastic paralysis produced by lesions of the cerebral cortex in primates," Proc Ass Res Nerv Ment Dis, 1932, 13:158-210. Fulton, J. F. "The Centenary of the Sheffield Scientific School," Isis, 1947, 38:100-101. Fulton, J. F. "The History of Science at Cornell University," Isis, 1947, 38:99. Fulton, J. F. "Physiological Basis Frontal Lobotomy," Acta Medica Scandinavica, suppl., 1947, 196:617-625. Fulton, J. F. "The Surgical Approach to Mental Disorder," McGill Medical Journal, 1948, 17:133-145. Fulton, J. F., Frederick G. Kilgour, and Madeline E. Stanton, "Die Medizinische Bibliothek der Universität Yale,” Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Bibliophilen Gesellschaft 2 (2) (1959): 87–102. Other Fulton, J. F. (1926) Muscular contraction and the reflex control of movement. Doctorate thesis. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins. Fulton, J. F. "The Needs of Historians of Science" (read at the Conference on the Place of Science in General Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 9 July 1949), p. 1, "Conant – Conference on Science in General Education," BSh86, Richard Harrison Shryock Papers, American Philosophical Society.