Member of the Medical Research Council Statistical Research Unit

Richard Doll

Statistical Research Unit, Medical Research Council

Listed in the 1950 BMJ paper as a member of the Statistical Research Unit of the Medical Research Council. First author, with A. Bradford Hill, of the 1950 report on smoking and carcinoma of the lung, and lead author of the 2004 report on 50 years of observations on male British doctors.

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.
PubMed DOI
Doll R, Peto R, Boreham J, Sutherland I. Mortality in relation to smoking: 50 years' observations on male British doctors. BMJ. 2004;328(7455):1519.
PubMed DOI