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TWORT, Frederick William (1877 – 1950)

TWORT, Frederick William (1877 – 1950)

1877 – 1950

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 7, No. 20. (Nov., 1951), pp. 504-517. · Public domain

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1915 CE

#2571

An investigation on the nature of ultra-microscopic viruses.

TWORT, Frederick William (1877 – 1950)
TWORT, Frederick William (1877 – 1950)

Twort discovered discovered bacteriophages, a type of virus that attacks bacteria (the term bacteriophage was coined by Félix d’Herelle, who in 1917 independently confirmed Twort’s discovery). The d…