Richard Doll, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Richard Doll

British physician and epidemiologist

Date of Birth: 28-Oct-1912

Place of Birth: London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 24-Jul-2005

Profession: physician, university teacher, statistician, epidemiologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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.
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 caused lung cancer and increased the risk of heart disease.
(German studies had suggested a link as early as the 1920s but were forgotten or ignored until the 1990s.) He also carried out pioneering work on the relationship between radiation and leukemia as well as that between asbestos and lung cancer, and alcohol and breast cancer.
On 28 June 2012 he was the subject of a series on Radio Four called The New Elizabethans, a programme broadcast to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, dealing with 60 public figures from her reign.