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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick Twort has received more than 75,918 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Frederick Twort is the 532nd most popular physician (down from 508th in 2019), the 3,099th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,237th in 2019) and the 46th most popular British Physician.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Frederick Twort ranks 532 out of 726. Before him are Henri Dutrochet, Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch, Emil Zuckerkandl, Maryna Poroshenko, Giulio Bizzozero, and Giuseppe Pitrè. After him are Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Joshua Pim, Kenneth H. Cooper, Özlem Türeci, Jan Janský, and Burrill Bernard Crohn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Frederick Twort ranks 122. Before him are Alphonse de Châteaubriant, Noël Bas, Miltiadis Gouskos, Shefqet Vërlaci, Georgy Sedov, and Sidney Johnson. After him are Filippos Karvelas, Ned Maddrell, Victor Willems, Norman Brookes, Walter Sutton, and Slava Raškaj. Among people deceased in 1950, Frederick Twort ranks 133. Before him are Pedro Parages, Adolf Wiklund, Frederic Lewy, Albert Ehrenstein, Axeman of New Orleans, and Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones. After him are Mikhail Tskhakaya, José Berraondo, Charles Gmelin, Alexander Tairov, Semyon Frank, and Giovanni Giorgi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederick Twort ranks 3,099 out of 8,785. Before him are Siouxsie Sioux (1957), Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk (1472), Winston Graham (1908), Johann von Lamont (1805), Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (1435), and Anthony Andrews (1948). After him are William Withering (1741), Geoff Duke (1923), Dave Holland (1948), Andrew Marvell (1621), James Arthur (1988), and Tom Phillips (1888).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Frederick Twort ranks 46. Before him are Rutherford Alcock (1809), William Turner (1510), James Paget (1814), Ernest Starling (1866), Robert Knox (1791), and Anthony Carlisle (1768). After him are Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899), Thomas Francis Wade (1818), Richard Leach Maddox (1816), John Arbuthnot (1667), William Stukeley (1687), and Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762).

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