Person Doll; Sir; William Richard Shaboe (1912 - 2005) Doll William Richard Shaboe Sir 1912 - 2005 British Male Hampton, Middlesex, England 28/10/1912 19121028 Oxford 24/07/2005 20050724

Epidemiology 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 Son of Henry Doll and Amy Shaboe; married Dr Joan Mary Faulkner (d 2001) Royal Society roles: Council: 1970-1971, 1996-1998;VP 1970-1971 Medals and prizes: Buchanan Medal 1972; Royal Medal 1986 Fellow 17/03/1966 53 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) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 28 Oct 1912 - NA7159 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes fbfbdbb9-bee2-4d96-b177-6fc07f8b5c47