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Sir Archibald Edward Garrod KCMG FRS [1] (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. [2]
Mar 10, 2016 · Archibald Garrod is best known for his book Inborn Errors of Metabolism (1909), in which he argued that four diseases—alkaptonuria, albinism, cystinuria, and pentosuria—were inherited as ...
- Robert L. Perlman, Diddahally R. Govindaraju
- 2016
Archibald Garrod was a physician and scientist who connected human disorders with Mendel's laws of inheritance. He proposed the idea of inborn errors of metabolism and attributed a biochemical role to genes.
Other articles where Sir Archibald Edward Garrod is discussed: heredity: Universality of Mendel’s laws: …and 1909, English physician Sir Archibald Garrod initiated the analysis of inborn errors of metabolism in humans in terms of biochemical genetics. Alkaptonuria, inherited as a recessive, is characterized by excretion in the urine of large amounts of the substance called alkapton, or ...
Archibald Garrod was the son of the physician, Alfred Baring Garrod, who diagnosed and studied rheumatoid arthritis. Although his father initially intended for Archibald to study business, his teachers recognized and encouraged him to go into the field of science and medicine. Garrod studied medicine at Oxford University and became a physician.
Archibald Edward Garrod (1857–1936) had a unique role in the history of medical biochemistry. Early in his career, he was recognized by the Royal Society of Medicine 1 for his elucidation of the ...
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Archibald Edward Garrod was born on 25 November 1857 in London, the son of Alfred Baring Garrod and Elizabeth Ann Colchester. He grew up in the time when the discipline of medicine was considered an “elite” discipline and only “little” men worked as physicians.
