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Frederick Griffith was a medical officer in London. 1928, in what is today known as Griffith's experiment, he discovered a transforming principle, which is today known as DNA.
Griffith was, in fact, looking for a way to fight pneumonia in the epidemics after World War I. The discovery was made in what should have been a negative control, accidentially heated to 60°C instead of 100°C, killing the pneumococcus bacteria but not destroying their DNA. This scientist changed genetics.
