Frederick William Twort, 1877-1950

@article{Fildes1951FrederickWT,
  title={Frederick William Twort, 1877-1950},
  author={Paul Gordon Fildes},
  journal={Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society},
  year={1951},
  volume={7},
  pages={505 - 517},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:161652707}
}
Frederick William Twort was the eldest of the eleven children of the late Dr William Henry Twort of Camberley and became intimate with a number of colleagues who later became distinguished in research.
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