Professor of Medical Statistics

A. Bradford Hill

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Statistical Research Unit, Medical Research Council

Listed in the 1950 BMJ paper as Professor of Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and honorary director of the Statistical Research Unit of the Medical Research Council. Second author, with Richard Doll, of the 1950 report on smoking and carcinoma of the lung.

Milestones

1950 Hospital case-control study links smoking to lung carcinoma (1950)

Sources

DOLL R, HILL AB. Smoking and carcinoma of the lung; preliminary report. Br Med J. 1950;2(4682):739-48.
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