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Archibald Garrod

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Name: Archibald Garrod
Birth Date: 1857
Death Date: 1936
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: physician, chemist

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Biography of Archibald Garrod
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Archibald Garrod was a physician whose innovative work in clinical medicine and chemistry led him to discover a new class of human disease based on hereditary factors. A pioneer in biochemistry, Garrod stressed the chemical uniqueness of each person....


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Archibald Edward Garrod Summary
87 words, approx. 1 pages
1857-1936 British physician who introduced the concept of "inborn errors of metabolism" with his report on alcaptonuria in 1902. The urine of babies with alcaptonuria darkens when exposed to air because it contains homogentisic acid....
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Archibald Edward Garrod Summary
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1857-1936 English physician who conducted pioneering studies of genetic diseases, which he referred to as "inborn errors of metabolism." Garrod concluded that these disorders were the results of an inherited alteration in some metabolic...
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Archibald Garrod Information
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Sir Archibald Edward Garrod was an English physician who pioneered the field of inborn errors of metabolism. He was born on November 25 1857, in London, and died on March 28 1936, in Cambridge. Archibald was the fourth son of Sir Alfred Baring Garrod, a...


News and Journals
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Clinical Medicine
The centenary of Garrod's Croonian lectures
06/01/2008: 1,787 words, approx. 6 pages
ABSTRACT - Archibald Garrod's Croonian lectures, Inborn errors of metabolism, were delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in June 1908. Although their significance remained dormant for many years, and is still not fully appreciated, they are now recognised as the foundation of medical...
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Central Penn Business Journal
Garrod survives despite setbacks
01/09/2004: 857 words, approx. 3 pages
In April 2002, Garrod Hydratilics Inc. signed a contract to pay roughly $4 million for construction of a new plant. The business wanted a much larger building so it could do bigger repair jobs for more industries. At the time, the company fixed...
 


 

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