Philip Bruce White

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Philip Bruce White
Born29 December 1891
Bangor, Gwynedd, North Wales[1]
Died19 March 1949 (1949-03-20) (aged 57)
London, England

Philip Bruce White (29 December 1891 – 19 March 1949) was a British microbiologist.

In 1926, White published a schema for classifying salmonella bacteria based on serum.[2][3] This was later extended by the Danish microbiologist Fritz Kauffmann [de], the Kauffman–White classification.

White became a fellow of the Royal Society on 20 March 1941.

White was born in Bangor, Gwynedd, North Wales, and died in London.

References

  1. ^ "Philip Bruce White. Born 29th December 1891. Died 19th March 1949", The Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology, vol. 62, issue 3, pp. 468–481, July 1950]
  2. ^ P. B. White: Further Studies of the Salmonella Group. Great Britain Medical Research Council 103, (Her Majesty's Stationery Office), 3–160, 1926.
  3. ^ F. Kauffmann: Das Fundament. Munksgaard, Kopenhagen, 1978.

Further reading

  • Wilson Smith (30 November 1950). "Philip Bruce White, 1891–1949". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 7 (19): 278–292. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1950.0018. ISSN 1479-571X.
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