List of Famous people with last name Twort

Frederick Twort

First Name Frederick
Last Name Twort
Born on October 22, 1877
Died on March 20, 1950 (aged 72)

Frederick William Twort FRS was an English bacteriologist and was the original discoverer in 1915 of bacteriophages. He studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital, London, was superintendent of the Brown Institute for Animals, 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.

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