| Authorised form of name | Doll; Sir; William Richard Shaboe (1912 - 2005) |
| Dates | 1912 - 2005 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Hampton, Middlesex, England |
| Date of birth | 28/10/1912 |
| Place of death | Oxford |
| Date of death | 24/07/2005 |
| Research field | Epidemiology |
| Activity | Education:
Westminster School; St Thomas's Hospital Medical School (graduated 1937); RCP
Career:
Served in the RAMC during WW2; returned to St Thomas's Hospital as a casualty officer and house physician; Central Middlesex Hospital, associate physician (1949-1969); member (1948), deputy director (1959) and then director (1961) of MRC Statistical Research Unit; lecturer, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (1956-1962); teacher in medical statistics and epidemiology, Univeristy College Hospital Medical School (1966-1969); Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford (1969-1979); first Warden of Green College, Oxford (1979-1983); Oxford University Clinical Trial Service Unit; Head, Imperial Cancer Research Fund Epidemiology Unit at Oxford; UN Award for work on research in cancer; Presidential Award, New York Academy of Sciences; member, Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (1973-1979); member, Standing Commission on Energy and the Environment; first demonstrated the link between smoking and lung cancer |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 17/03/1966 |
| Age at election | 53 |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
Council: 1970-1971, 1996-1998;VP 1970-1971
Medals and prizes:
Buchanan Medal 1972; Royal Medal 1986 |
| Relationships | Son of Henry Doll and Amy Shaboe; married Dr Joan Mary Faulkner (d 2001) |
| Source | Sources:
Biographical Memoirs of the Royal Society, Volume 56 2010, pp 63-84, by Sir Richard Peto FRS and Dame Vaklerie Beral FRS
Obituaries in The Times (25 July 2005); Daily Telegraph (25 July 2005); Guardian (25 July 2005)
References:
Diary of his time as a batallion medical officer on the retreat to Dunkirk published in British Medical Journal (1990) |
| Code | NA7159 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| HWT/32/3 | Agenda, papers and minutes of meeting held 5 July 1971 | July 1971 |
| IM/GA/SGRS/8464 | Doll, Sir William Richard Shaboe | 1986 |
| EC/1966/05 | Doll, William Richard Shaboe: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/GA/RGRS/8013 | Doll, Sir William Richard Shaboe | 1977 |