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Richard Doll

1912 - 2005

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Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll (28 October 1912 – 24 July 2005) was a British physician who became an epidemiologist in the mid-20th century and made important contributions to that discipline. He was a pioneer in research linking smoking to health problems. With Ernst Wynder, Bradford Hill and Evarts Graham, he was credited with being the first to prove that smoking increased the risk of lung cancer and heart disease. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Doll has received more than 227,413 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Richard Doll is the 672nd most popular physician (down from 579th in 2019), the 5,158th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,416th in 2019) and the 65th most popular British Physician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Richard Doll ranks 672 out of 726. Before him are Leila Denmark, Kei Okami, Alaa Najjar, Ran Laurie, Robert Spitzer, and Indira Nath. After him are Daniel Cornelius Danielssen, Ben Klassen, Flora Murray, Samuel Gridley Howe, Samuel George Morton, and Louisa Garrett Anderson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Richard Doll ranks 375. Before him are Wendy Barrie, Eleazar de Carvalho, Dorothy Brookshaw, Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein, George Woodcock, and Eva Dawes. After him are Sam Snead, Henry M. Jackson, Hisakichi Toyoda, Elizaveta Mukasei, John Le Mesurier, and Henry Jonsson. Among people deceased in 2005, Richard Doll ranks 326. Before him are Ernest Lehman, Dave Allen, Robert Creeley, Kalevi Hämäläinen, Harold J. Stone, and George Szekeres. After him are Adrian Biddle, Nikolai Puchkov, Georges Dransart, Peter Jennings, Henry Proctor, and P. Bhanumathi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Doll ranks 5,158 out of 8,785. Before him are William Paterson (1745), Antonia Thomas (1986), Rupert Keegan (1955), Cyril Burt (1883), Jack Wilshere (1992), and John Aston Sr. (1921). After him are John Lynch (1961), Bryan Sykes (1947), Gracie Fields (1898), Beryl Bainbridge (1932), Sean Pertwee (1964), and Thomas Baines (1820).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Richard Doll ranks 65. Before him are Thomas Lewis (1881), Almroth Wright (1861), Sophia Jex-Blake (1840), Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842), Thomas C. Jerdon (1811), and Ran Laurie (1915). After him are Flora Murray (1869), Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873), Patrick Steptoe (1913), Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850), William Hewson (1739), and Vivek Murthy (1977).

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