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Frederick Griffith

1879 - 1941

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Frederick Griffith (1877–1941) was a British bacteriologist whose focus was the epidemiology and pathology of bacterial pneumonia. In January 1928 he reported what is now known as Griffith's Experiment, the first widely accepted demonstrations of bacterial transformation, whereby a bacterium distinctly changes its form and function. He showed that Streptococcus pneumoniae, implicated in many cases of lobar pneumonia, could transform from one strain into a different strain. The observation was attributed to an unidentified underlying principle, later known in the Avery laboratory as the "transforming principle" (abbreviated as T. P.) and identified as DNA. America's leading pneumococcal researcher, Oswald T. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick Griffith has received more than 434,398 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Frederick Griffith is the 172nd most popular physician (down from 132nd in 2019), the 872nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 740th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Physician.

Frederick Griffith was a British bacteriologist who discovered that bacteria could pass on genes to one another.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Frederick Griffith ranks 172 out of 726Before him are Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Andrea Cesalpino, Engelbert Kaempfer, Georges Gilles de la Tourette, Aretaeus of Cappadocia, and Charaka. After him are Kitasato Shibasaburō, Mehriban Aliyeva, Michael Stuart Brown, Dominique Jean Larrey, Joseph Murray, and Alexander Bogdanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Frederick Griffith ranks 43Before him are Franz Reichelt, Karl Bühler, Friedrich Adler, E. M. Forster, Aleksandar Stamboliyski, and Periyar E. V. Ramasamy. After him are Adolf Strauss, Wanda Landowska, Boris Savinkov, Marius Jacob, Paul Poiret, and Ethel Barrymore. Among people deceased in 1941, Frederick Griffith ranks 42Before him are Louis Chevrolet, Sisowath Monivong, Günther Lütjens, Mikhail Kirponos, Émile Bernard, and Gottfried Feder. After him are Annie Jump Cannon, Dmitry Pavlov, Tullio Levi-Civita, Rudolf Hilferding, Paul-Jacques Curie, and Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederick Griffith ranks 872 out of 8,785Before him are Simon Cowell (1959), Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428), Nevill Francis Mott (1905), Boris Karloff (1887), Rishi Sunak (1980), and Daniel Burley Woolfall (1852). After him are Martin Evans (1941), Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (1770), Benedict Cumberbatch (1976), Robert Clive (1725), Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland (1915), and Emily Davison (1872).

Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Frederick Griffith ranks 11Before him are James Parkinson (1755), Niels Kaj Jerne (1911), John Snow (1813), Edgar Adrian (1889), James Black (1924), and John Langdon Down (1828). After him are Alan Hodgkin (1914), Hans Sloane (1660), Thomas Willis (1621), Mungo Park (1771), James Lind (1716), and John Hunter (1728).