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'''[[Wynder, Ernest L (32926486)|Ernest L. Wynder]]''' (30 April 1922 – 14 July 1999), born [[Wynder, Ernest L (32926486)|Ernst Ludwig Wynder]] in Herford, Germany, was a Jewish Ritchie Boy and later an American epidemiologist and public-health researcher. With Evarts A. Graham he published the landmark 1950 ''Journal of the American Medical Association'' study that helped identify smoking as a contributory cause of lung cancer—work that shaped decades of cancer prevention research.

Wynder was born in Herford, Westphalia in 1922 to Jewish parents (a cousin of Robert Weinberg). Ernst Ludwig Wynder was born on 30 April 1922 in Herford, Westphalia, to Jewish parents. In 1938 his family fled Nazi Germany for the United States, where he enrolled at New York University.

Roster and enlistment records list him as Ernest L Wynder (ASN 32926486), a German-born Jewish trainee associated with Camp Ritchie; he enlisted from Newark, New Jersey, with four years of college noted on the service record.

In 1938 his family escaped Nazi rule and fled to the United States, where Wynder enrolled at New York University. After the war, he attended medical school at Washington University in St. After the war Wynder studied medicine at Washington University in St.

 

Wynder spent the 1950s and 1960s at the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, published hundreds of papers on cancer epidemiology (including lung, breast, and many other sites), founded the American Health Foundation in 1969, and in 1972 founded the journal ''Preventive Medicine'', which he edited. In 1972, he founded the academic journal Preventive Medicine and served as the founding editor. He received the Robert Koch Prize (Gold) in 1990.

 

His and Evarts Ambrose Graham's joint publication of "Tobacco Smoking as a Possible Etiologic Factor in Bronchiogenic Carcinoma: A Study of 684 Proved Cases" appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It was one of the first major scientific publications to identify smoking as a contributory cause of lung cancer. During World War II, he attained citizenship and joined the U.S.

 

Army, where, as a German-speaker, he was assigned to a psychological warfare unit to monitor German newscasts. Aside from his credentials as a physician, Wynder was a researcher, educator, and activist. He devoted his career to the study and prevention of cancer and chronic disease, publishing hundreds of scientific papers.

 

Through the 1950s and 1960s, he worked at Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. During the Second World War he became a U.S. Citizen and served in the Army as a German speaker.

 

Wikipedia records that he was assigned to psychological warfare work monitoring German newscasts. He also appears in a wartime group photograph of Ritchie Boys preserved in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (Joseph Eaton collection) and shared on the Ritchie Boys of WWII Facebook page—standing among fellow trainees including [[Kellen, Konrad (39701828)|Konrad Kellen]], [[Heym, Stefan (32860259)|Stefan Heym]], [[Atlas, Louis (32258804)|Louis Atlas]], [[Weidenreich, Peter H.

 

(32791342)|Peter Weidenreich]] (later Wyden), and [[Eaton, Joseph W. (32498461)|Joseph Eaton]] (see gallery caption for the full identification). Louis, receiving both a Bachelor of Science and an M.D.

 

As a medical student he began the epidemiological work that made his scientific reputation. With thoracic surgeon Evarts A. Follow-up laboratory work with Graham showed that cigarette tar could produce cancers in mice and helped identify carcinogens in tobacco smoke.

 

Ernst Ludwig Wynder (April 30, 1922 – July 14, 1999) was an American epidemiology and public health researcher who studied the health effects of smoking tobacco. Wynder died from thyroid cancer on July 14, 1999.

 

4448187125203174.jpg|All the men identified in the pix are "Ritchie Boys." Seated - [[Habe-Bekessy, Hans (32719455)|Hans Habe]]. Standing L-R - Unknown, [[Wynder, Ernest L (32926486)|Ernest Wynder]], [[Kellen, Konrad (39701828)|Konrad Kellen]], unknown, [[Heym, Stefan (32860259)|Stefan Heym]], [[Atlas, Louis (32258804)|Louis Atlas]], [[Weidenreich, Peter H. (32791342)|Peter Weidenreich]] (last name later changed to Wyden), unknown, [[Eaton, Joseph W. (32498461)|Joseph Eaton]]