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Frederick Twort

1877 - 1950

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Frederick William Twort FRS (22 October 1877 – 20 March 1950) was an English bacteriologist and was the original discoverer in 1915 of bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria). He studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital, London, was superintendent of the Brown Institute for Animals (a pathology research centre), and was a professor of bacteriology at the University of London. He researched into Johne's disease, a chronic intestinal infection of cattle, and also discovered that vitamin K is needed by growing leprosy bacteria. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frederick Twort is the 541st most popular physician (down from 532nd in 2019), the 3,328th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,099th in 2019) and the 49th most popular British Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Frederick Twort ranks 541 out of 726. Before him are Rufus of Ephesus, Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch, Nadezhda Suslova, Henri Dutrochet, Louis-Antoine Ranvier, and Anna Kuliscioff. After him are Wladimir Aïtoff, Jan Janský, Nicolás Monardes, Willem Piso, Paolo Macchiarini, and John Ostrom.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Frederick Twort ranks 125. Before him are Slava Raškaj, Norman Brookes, Carl Tanzler, Lewis Terman, Mohammad Ali Foroughi, and Maurice Farman. After him are Maurice Costello, Ioannis Persakis, Ugo Cerletti, Vladimir Gardin, Aleksey Remizov, and Fritz Graebner. Among people deceased in 1950, Frederick Twort ranks 134. Before him are Frederic Lewy, Guilhermina Suggia, Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones, Alykul Osmonov, Vasily Gordov, and Louis Wilkins. After him are Maurice Costello, José Berraondo, Francisco Villota, Ransom E. Olds, Elisabeth Langgässer, and Mikhail Tskhakaya.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederick Twort ranks 3,329 out of 8,785. Before him are Natalie Dormer (1982), Mary Delany (1700), John Biscoe (1794), Pete Ham (1947), Christopher Priest (1943), and Benedict Wong (1971). After him are Bryan Robson (1957), Joseph Quinn (1994), Simon Wright (1963), William Davenant (1606), Andrew Loog Oldham (1944), and Elizabeth Fry (1780).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Frederick Twort ranks 49. Before him are Rutherford Alcock (1809), Richard Bright (1789), William Hunter (1718), Thomas Francis Wade (1818), Anthony Carlisle (1768), and John Crawfurd (1783). After him are John Arbuthnot (1667), Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762), Patrick Steptoe (1913), James Paget (1814), Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899), and Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850).

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