Archibald garrod biography of alberta

English physician

Sir Archibald Edward GarrodKCMG FRS^[1] (25 November 1857 – 28 March 1936) was an Englishphysician who pioneered the field of inborn errors of metabolism.

Biography 13: Sir Archibald Edward Garrod (1857-1936)

He also discovered alkaptonuria, understanding its inheritance. He served as Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford from 1920 to 1927.^[2]

Education and personal life

Archibald was the fourth son of Sir Alfred Baring Garrod, a renowned physician who received his medical degree at the age of 23 and became a professor of medicine at University College, London by the time he was 32.

He discovered the abnormal uric acid metabolism associated with gout.^[2] Garrod's father also successfully estimated the weight of crystals he obtained from a known quantity of blood, resulting in what Garrod called “the first quantitative biochemical investigation made on the living human body”.^[3] Garrod's eldest brother Alfred Henry Garrod was a suc Sir Archibald Edward Garrod | RCP Museum - RCP London LOD