Complex sentence: Robert Edmond Grant MD FRCPE FRS (1793--1874), born in Edinburgh and educated at Edinburgh University as a physician, became one of the foremost biologists of the early 19th century at Edinburgh and subsequently the first Professor of Comparative Anatomy at University College London.
Split into simpler sentences: Robert Edmond Grant MD FRCPE FRS (1793--1874) was born in Edinburgh and educated at Edinburgh University as a physician. He became one of the foremost biologists of the early 19th century at Edinburgh and subsequently the first Professor of Comparative Anatomy at University College London.