| Hill, Austin Bradford (1897-1991) | |
| English
epidemiologist and statistician. Early advocate of the clinical
trial. He pioneered rigorous statistical study of patterns of
disease and, together with William
Richard Doll, was the first to demonstrate the connection
between cigarette smoking and lung cancer.
Hill took a degree in economics, and in 1923 began working for the Medical Research Council as a statistician. In 1933 he moved to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he later became professor of medical statistics. His work on smoking and lung cancer, which involved collecting data on the smoking habits and health of over 30,000 British doctors for several years, in the precomputer age, is considered to be among the great medical achievements of the century. Link to early writing: http://www.jameslindlibrary.org/trial_records/20th_Century/1930s/hill/hill_port.html |
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