Arthur Gamgee

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Arthur Gamgee FRS (11 October 1841- 29 May 1909^{[citation needed]}) was a British biochemist and Fullerian Professor of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, from 1884 to 1888. Author of "A text-book of the physiological chemistry of the animal body: including an account of the chemical changes occurring in disease", published in 1880. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1872.

He was the brother of John Gamgee and Joseph Sampson Gamgee and uncle of D'Arcy Thompson.

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• Fullerian Professorships
• Thompson, Ruth D'Arcy, The Remarkable Gamgees: A Story of Achievement (Ramsey Head Press, Edinburgh, 1974)