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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on May 26, 2006
American Journal of Epidemiology 2006 164(1):95-100; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj210
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American Journal of Epidemiology Copyright © 2006 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health All rights reserved; printed in U.S.A.

Obituary

Sir Richard Doll, 1912–2005

Jonathan M. Samet1 and Frank E. Speizer2

1 Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
2 Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA

Correspondence to Dr. Jonathan M. Samet, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Suite W6041, Baltimore, MD 21205 (e-mail: jsamet@jhsph.edu).

Received for publication November 3, 2005. Accepted for publication May 8, 2006.

Abbreviations: MRC, Medical Research Council

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   INTRODUCTION
 
Sir Richard Doll, who died on July 24, 2005, will long be remembered for carrying out epidemiologic studies that improved health and saved lives throughout the world. Over a remarkable career that began in the 1940s and extended up to the time of his death at age 92, he made seminal observations on the causes of cancer, quantified the risks of radiation, anchored collaborative research projects, and tirelessly served on expert panels concerned with the translation of epidemiologic evidence into public policy. Although best known for his research on cancer, his curriculum vitae lists key papers on gastrointestinal diseases, asthma, and cardiovascular diseases.

His imprint will be lasting not only because of his scholarly contributions but also because of the many colleagues and trainees who flourished under his direction at Oxford University and earlier in the Medical Research Council's (MRC's) Statistical Research Unit, which he directed from 1961 through 1969. . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   TOBACCO USE
 

   IONIZING RADIATION
 

   CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY
 

   ASTHMA
 

   REFLECTIONS
 

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