Frederick Griffith

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Colleagues described him as brilliant but reclusive, and he published only a few papers on his research, but his landmark paper, published in 1928, secured his place in the annals of scientific history. The paper showed that a nonpathogenic strain of the bacterium <i>Streptococcus pneumonaie</i> could be induced to take on the disease-causing characteristics of a different strain, a finding which formed the foundation of the transforming principle.<p> Griffith's paper drew substantial attention, and by the time of his death in a 1941 Axis bombing of London, further research inspired by his work had led to progress against puerperal fever, scarlet fever, surgical sepsis, and infections from wounds. The ultimate importance of his paper, however, was not truly understood until a decade after his death, as further research by <a href="/people/203/000179663/">Oswald Avery</a> and others concluded that the transforming agent described by Griffith is deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), and that DNA carries information within the cell.<p><b>Brother:</b> Arthur Stanley Griffith (microbiologist)<br><p>    Medical School: <a href="/edu/937/000104625/">MB, University of Liverpool (1901)</a><br>    University: <a href="/edu/486/000068282/">DPH, Oxford University (1910)</a><br><p>    <a href="/gov/219/000117865/">UK Official</a> Pathologist, Ministry of Health (1911-41)<br>    <u>Honourable Society of Gray's Inn</u> <br> <p> <br> <p> <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; color: #ff3333;">New!</span><br> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=270682"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=270682">Frederick Griffith</a></td> </tr> </table> <font face="Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</font> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=270682" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>

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Frederick Griffith