Richard Doll, English physiologist and epidemiologist (born 1912)

Richard Doll

British physician and epidemiologist (1912–2005)

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,…