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Place of Birth: Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
About Fred Neufeld
- Fred (Friedrich) Neufeld (17 February 1869 in Danzig – 18 April 1945 in Berlin) was a physician and bacteriologist who discovered the pneumococcal types.
- This discovery led Fred Griffith to show that one pneumococcal type could be transformed into another (Griffith's experiment).
- Subsequently, Oswald Avery demonstrated that the transforming substance was DNA.
- All modern molecular biology has evolved from this work.
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