Richard Doll

Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll was a British physician who became an epidemiologist in the mid-20th century and made important contributions to that discipline. He was a pioneer in research linking smoking to health problems. With Ernst Wynder, Bradford Hill and Evarts Graham, he was credited with being the first to prove that smoking increased the risk of lung cancer and heart disease.

28 October 1912

Born on the same birth day (28 October): Agnes Obel • Christy Hemme • Finn Wittrock • Gary Cowan • Graham Bond • Hans Klenk • Ignacije Szentmartony • Jamie xx • Kanō Jigorō • Marcel Bozzuffi • Michael Noakes • Pierre Boivin • Velimir Khlebnikov

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