Wynder, Ernest Ludwig (32926486): Difference between revisions

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-|occupation=Physician; cancer epidemiologist
+|occupation=Physician, educator, health researcher
+|birth_date=30 April 1922
+|birth_place=Herford, Westphalia
+|death_date=14 July 1999
+|death_place=Manhattan, New York, US
+|known_for=Linking smoking with lung cancer
+|awards=Robert Koch Prize (Gold, 1990)
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-'''Ernest L. Wynder''' (1922–1999), born Ernst Ludwig Wynder in Herford, Germany, was a Jewish Ritchie Boy and later a pioneering American epidemiologist who helped establish smoking as a cause of lung cancer.
+'''Ernest L. Wynder''' (1922–1999), born 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.
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