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.

Bibliography

• Doll R, Hill AB. (1950) Smoking and carcinoma of the lung. Preliminary report, British Medical Journal, 2: 739-748.
• Doll R, Jones, FA. (1951) Occupational factors in the aetiology of gastric and duodenal ulcers, with an estimate of their incidence in the general population. Spec Rep Ser Med Res Counc. London, HM Stationery Office.
• Doll R, Hill AB. (1954) The mortality of doctors in relation to their smoking habits. British Medical Journal, 228:1451-5.
• Doll, R (2002) Proof of Causality: Deduction from Epidemiological Observation (Fisher Memorial Lecture), Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Volume 45, Number 4, pp. 499-515. Excerpt
• Doll R, Peto R, Boreham J, Sutherland I. (2004) Mortality in relation to smoking: 50 years' observation on male British doctors. British Medical Journal, ;328:1519-33. PMID 15213107.