Richard Doll

Professor Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll, KBE CH FRS (28 October 1912–24 July 2005) was a British epidemiologist, physiologist, and a pioneer in the research linking smoking to health problems. He was the first in the world to prove that smoking caused lung cancer and increased the risk of heart disease. He also did pioneering work on the relationship between radiation and leukemia as well as that between asbestos and lung cancer.

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Doll was born at Hampton into an affluent family, though his father's work at a doctor was cut short by multiple sclerosis. Educated first at Westminster School, Doll originally then intended (against the wishes of his parents that he become a doctor like his father) to study mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge. Reportedly, Doll failed the math scholarship exam due to drinking too much Trinity College homebrew beer the night before. He subsequently chose to study medicine at St. Thomas's Hospital from where he graduated in 1937, Doll joined the Royal College of Physicians after the outbreak of World War II and served for much of the war as a part of the Royal Army Medical Corps on a hospital ship as a medical specialist.

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