Archibald Garrod
| Archibald Garrod | |
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| Born |
25 November 1857 London |
| Died | 28 March 1936 (aged 78) Cambridge |
| Nationality | English |
| Fields | medicine |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
| Known for | alkaptonuria |
| Notable awards | Fellow of the Royal Society |
Sir Archibald Edward Garrod KCMG FRS (25 November 1857 – 28 March 1936) was an English physician who pioneered the field of inborn errors of metabolism. He also discovered alkaptonuria, understanding its inheritance. He served as Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford from 1920 to 1927.
Archibald was the fourth son of Sir Alfred Baring Garrod, a physician at King's College Hospital, who discovered the abnormal uric acid metabolism associated with gout.
He was educated at Marlborough College and Christ Church, University of Oxford. He graduated with an honours degree in natural science in 1880. He received further medical training at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London. He spent several months of postgraduate study at the Allgemeines Krankenhaus in Vienna in 1884–85. In 1885 he obtained his Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Arts from Oxford, and became a member of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
He married Laura Elizabeth Smith in 1886. They had three sons and a daughter, Dorothy Garrod a British archaeologist who was the first woman to hold an Oxbridge chair, partly through her pioneering work on the Palaeolithic period.
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