Bacteriologist Hugh Whitehead made a number of outstanding contributions to science, including the 1930s discovery that the sudden failure of acid development during cheese making was caused by virus-like particles known as bacteriophages, which selectively destroy bacteria. After initial scepticism, his research was taken up by the burgeoning New Zealand dairy industry.
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