Fuller Albright 1900-1969.

In 1920, F.A. entered Harvard Medical School, and graduated in 1924. He then worked as an intern at the Massachusetts General Hospital (M.G.H.) in the Department of Dr. J. Aub and W. Bauer where he was initiated into the field of the parathyroid glands and calcium metabolism. In 1927 and 1928, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Albright together with Dr. R. Ellsworth studied and published a case of idiopathic hypoparathyroidism, the first in the bibliography. He subsequently spent two years in Vienna studying under Dr. J. Erdheim, an authority on parathyroid diseases. He was he who, in 1906, established the relationship between the parathyroid glands and calcium metabolism and who first described compensatory hyperplasia of the parathyroids following osteomalacia. F.A, always held him in deep respect. On his returm from Vienna F.A., went to M.G.H. where he stayed as Associate Professor in Medicine until the end of his life.