Alexander Monro Scientist

Alexander Monro III of Craiglockhart, FRSE FRCPE FSA(Scot) MWS (5 November 1773 – 10 March 1859), was a Scottish anatomist and medical educator at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. According to his detractors, Monro was an uninspired anatomist who did not compare with his brilliant father or grandfather as a teacher or scientist. His students included Charles Darwin who asserted that Monro "made his lectures on human anatomy as dull as he was himself."

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Alexander Monro
Birth dateNovember 05, 1773
Birth place
Edinburgh , Scotland
Nationality
Scotland
Date of deathMarch 10, 1859
Place of death
Scotland , Craiglockhart
Education
University of Edinburgh

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Field of study
Anatomy
Medicine
Surgery

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