Who Are They? And How Are They Connected? Famous statisticians, public health people and others famous individuals related to LSHTM and its surroundings A short quiz where everyone

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Who Are They? And How Are They
Connected?Famous statisticians, public health
people and others famous individuals related to
LSHTM and its surroundingsA short quiz where
everyones a winner!MSU RetreatCambridge1st
April 2008
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• Sir Ronald Ross (1857-1932)
• Connected to famous early work of LSHTM
• First Briton to be awarded the Nobel Prize for
  Medicine (1902)
• Discovered that mosquitoes transmit malaria
  (1897)

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• Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
• Crimea war started in July 1854
• Real enemies not the Russians but cholera,
  typhus and dysentry
• Charge of the Light Brigade October 1854
• In 1858 she became the first woman to be elected
  a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society for her
  contribution to Army statistics and comparative
  hospital statistics

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1823,1923,1990,2005

• Thomas Wakely (1795 - 1862) founded the Lancet
  in 1823
• -Radical journalist William Cobbett proposed
  that a journal like the Lancet could be used to
  campaign for reforms in the medical profession
• A surgeon who spent 17 years in the House of
  Commons

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John Snow (1813-1858)
Sander Greenland

• Traced source of a cholera outbreak in Soho in
  1854
• Study of causality
• One of first physicians to study use of ether and
  chloroform
• Administered chloroform to Queen Victoria for
  birth of last 2 children

• Well-known for recent work on causality in
  epidemiology

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Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Francis Galton (1822-1911)

• Francis Galton and Charles Darwin were
  half-cousins
• Galton
• correlation, regression and regression to the
  mean
• studied human intelligence
• founded Biometrika with Pearson and Weldon in
  1901
• undertook eugenics work considered controversial
  today
• International Eugenics Conference, London, 1912
  dedicated to Galton

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English cette homme er This man
Siméon Denis POISSON
Ronald A. FISHER
French statistician,1781-1840
English statistician, 1890-1962
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William Gossett (1876-1937)
A pint of Guiness

• Arthur Guiness born 1725 in Kildare
• Brewing industry was suffering since English beer
  was less heavily taxed than Irish
• Brewed strong black beer in 1770 which became
  very successful

• A chemist at the Guinness brewery in Dublin from
  1899
• Students t distribution
• To handle small samples for quality control in
  brewing

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James Lind (1716-1794)
Stuart Pocock

• Thought to have performed the first ever clinical
  trial
• Demonstrated that citrus fruits cure scurvy
• Pioneer of naval hygiene
• Worked on preventive medicine and hygiene and
  cleanliness

• One of our own famous clinical trialists

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Austin Bradford Hill (1897-1991)
Sir Richard Doll (1912-2005)

• Joint work on smoking and lung cancer
• 1950 case-control study
• British doctors study
• Hill
• MSU from 1947
• MRC statistician on what many believe to be the
  first RCT (use of streptomycin in the treatment
  of tuberculosis) as opposed to Lind
• Fisher was highly critical of the smoking/cancer
  work but proposed that Hill be made a fellow of
  the Royal Society

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• John Maynard Keynes
• (1883-1946)

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

• Members of the Bloomsbury Group
• First half of 20th century
• Started with a few Cambridge graduates and their
  friends
• Keynes
• economist
• Woolf
• Lived at 46 Gordon Square
• Author of Mrs Dalloway, Orlando, To the
  Lighthouse

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• Artemis
• Goddess of hunting and chastity, comforter of
  women in childbirth

• Apollo
• God of prophecy, music and medicine

• LSHTM seal
• Artemis is driving chariot whilst Apollo is
  shooting arrows
• Date palm for the tropical activities of the
  School and connection to
• birth of Apollo and Artemis- palm sprang up to
  give shade in childbirth
• Staff with a snake coiled for medical interests
  of the School

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LSHTM
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Statistical Aspects of the Analysis of Data from
Retrospective Studies of Disease JNCI, 1959 22
719 - 748
Nathan Mantel William Haenszel 
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• Austin Bradford Hill (1897-1991)
• MSU from 1947
• MRC statistician on what many believe to be the
  first RCT
• Use of streptomycin in the treatment of
  tuberculosis
• Work on smoking and lung cancer with Richard Doll
• 1950 case-control study
• British doctors study
• Fisher was highly critical of the smoking/cancer
  work but proposed that he be made a fellow of the
  Royal Society

• Peter Armitage (1924-)
• Professor in MSU 1961-1976
• Said of Austin Bradford Hill on his death
• to anyone involved in medical statistics,
  epidemiology or public health, Bradford Hill was
  quite simply the worlds leading medical
  statistician

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