Psychiatrist, Educator. He will be remembered for his pioneer work and being one of the most influential physicians in psychiatric medicine world-wide in the early 20th century. His main contributions were a focus on collecting detailed case histories and his insistence that all aspects of a patient's life situation were relevant to their mental health. After studying at several colleges in England, Scotland, and France, he received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Zurich in Switzerland, and began his career as a neuropathologist. He had studied with John Hughling Jackson, who was a pioneer in the study of seizures and under August-Henri Forel, who was known for his intense study of the structure of the human brain. Emigrating to the United States in 1892, he taught and practiced neurology at the University of Chicago and several state mental hospitals including the Illinois Eastern State Hospital in Kankakee and the State Lunatic Hospital in Worcester Massachusetts. He did patient autopsies to study their brains, but their charts fail to provide complete histories to go with the results he found, thus impacting his study. During this time, he published papers in neurology, neuropathology, and psychiatry. In 1902 he became the director of the Pathological Institute of New York State Hospital System, which was later named The Psychiatric Institute. It was there he developed his novel methods of psychiatry. He was responsible for changing the negative name of hospitals from “State Insane Asylums” or “Lunatic Hospital” to mental hospitals. He was Professor of Psychiatry at Cornell University in New York from 1904 to 1909 and the Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at John Hopkins Hospital University from 1910 to 1941, where he was the founding Director of the Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, which was the first inpatient mental health clinic. He was a strong proponent in employing psychiatrists in prisons, school, and other community settings. After being a charter member, he served in 1928 as president of the American Psychiatric Association. He received honorary degrees from Glasgow University in Scotland and in the United States, Clark University, Yale University, and Harvard University. In 1933 he was a guest lecturer at the Academy of Neurology and Psychiatry in Kharkov, USSR. In 1938 at the Rhode Island State Mental Hospital, a neuro-psychiatric clinic building was named in his honor. In 1902, he married a pioneer in psychiatric social worker, Mary Potter Brooks, of Newburgh, New York. They had one daughter, Julia Asher. The couple also financially supported two Spanish twins who were orphaned in 1938 during the Spanish Civil War. He published several books over the years: “Dementia Praecox: A Monagraph” co-authored; “Suggestion of Modern Science of Learning” co-authored and in 7th edition, first published was before 1923; “The Commonsense Psychiatry of Dr. Adolf Meyers: 52 papers;” and “State Hospital Bulletins” May 1908. For generations of students, he impressed the need to review the whole history including the environment in the diagnosis and treatment of mental health patients. His work appears in his “Collected Papers” 4 Vol, 1950-1952 and “Psychology” in 1957. His story is told by several authors including S. D. Lamb in his “Pathology of the Mind: Adolf Meyer and the Origin of American Psychiatry.”