A British physician who became an epidemiologist in the mid-20th century. With Austin Bradford Hill, he studied lung cancer patients in twenty London hospitals in 1950 and found that the risk of developing the disease rose with the amount smoked. The British Doctors Study, which the two of them began the following year, confirmed the finding in 1954 and helped establish cigarette smoking as a cause of lung cancer. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Notable ForEstablishing, with Austin Bradford Hill, that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, through the 1950 London hospitals study and the 1954 British Doctors Study 2 Connections
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Richard Doll co-designed and co-led the British Doctors Study (1951 onward) with Austin Bradford Hill, establishing the smoking-lung cancer link.
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Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll (28 October 1912 – 24 July 2005) was a British physician who became an epidemiologist in the mid-20th century and made important contributions to that discipline.
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British physician who became an epidemiologist in the mid-20th century
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(28 October 1912 - 24 July 2005)
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who became an epidemiologist in the mid-20th century
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The British Doctors Study, which began in 1951, was the world's first large prospective study of the effects of smoking to establish a convincing linkage between tobacco smoking and cause-specific mortality
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