Alfred Henry Garrod
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Alfred Henry Garrod (1846-05-18–1879-10-17) was an English vertebrate zoologist.
Garrod was born in London, the eldest son of Sir Alfred Baring Garrod (1819–1907) a physician at King's College Hospital, who discovered the abnormal uric acid metabolism associated with gout. He was also the eldest brother of Archibald Edward Garrod(1857–1936), an English physician who pioneered the field of inborn errors of metabolism.
[edit] Academic history
He attended the University College and King's College of the University of London for his studies and, in 1871, obtains a teaching position at the University of Cambridge. From 1874 to 1879, Garrod teaches comparative anatomy at King's College London. In 1875, he was nominated as the Fullerian Professor of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy at the Royal Institution, a position he held until 1878. Shortly after he was aggregated as a fellow to the Royal Society in 1876. Garrod's main scientific interests were bird and ruminant anatomy.
He also was a contributor to the description of the specimens obtained Challenger expedition (1872-1876)
