# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frederick-griffith
# Generated: 2026-09-07T16:44:26.577Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/frederick-griffith"
name: "Frederick Griffith"
slug: "frederick-griffith"
description: "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."
tagline: "British bacteriologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fred_Griffith_and_%22Bobby%22_1936.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1877"
deathDate: "1941-04-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump