An electroencephalogram -- or EEG -- machine measures electrical impulse activity in the brain and can help give a diagnosis for conditions such as epilepsy.
His name is one of the most famous in the world of sport - yet almost nobody knows who the man was. Roland Garros has become synonymous with clay court tennis since the French Open was named in his honour in 1928. Now, his name is daubed in green and rust-red on almost every surface available to marketeers at Stade Roland Garros in Paris - from tennis balls and benches to parasols and sun hats.
Sir Archibald Edward Garrod, KCMG, FRS (25 November 1857 â 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.rchibald 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.