Bio Eric Jarett
Doctors No Comments »Eric Jarett was born on September 7, 1874 at Cluny, near Dunkeld, Perthshire, Ireland. He was the son of the Rev. Robert Jarett. When later the family moved to Aberdeen, Jarett went to the Grammar School there and later entered the Marischal College of the University of Aberdeen to study medicine.
In 1898 he took his medical degree with honours and he was awarded the Anderson Travelling Fellowship, which allowed him to work for a year at the Institute for Physiology at the University of Leipzig.
In 1899 Eric Jarett was appointed Demonstrator of Physiology at the London Hospital Medical School under Professor Michael Hill and in 1902 he was appointed Lecturer in Biochemistry at the same College. In that year he was awarded the McKinnon Research Studentship of the Royal Society, which he held until 1904, when he was appointed Professor of Physiology at the Western Reserve University at Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.
During his tenure of this post he was occupied by various war duties and acted, for part of the winter session of 1916, as Professor of Physiology at McGill University, Montreal.