Frederick Twort

Frederick Twort
Frederick Twort
Born(1877-10-22)22 October 1877
Camberley, Surrey, England
Died20 March 1950(1950-03-20) (aged 72)
NationalityEnglish
Alma materSt Thomas's Hospital
Known forBacteriophages[2][3]
SpouseDorothy Nony Banister
Parents
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
FieldsBacteriology
InstitutionsUniversity of London

Frederick William Twort FRS[1] (22 October 1877 – 20 March 1950) was an English bacteriologist and was the original discoverer in 1915 of bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria).[4] 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.[5][6]

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