Austin Bradford Hill

For Massachusetts State Rep., see Bradford Hill.

Sir Austin Bradford Hill
Born8 July 1897
Hampstead, London, England
Died18 April 1991 (1991-04-19) (aged 93)
Ulverston, Cumbria, England
Occupation(s)Epidemiologist
statistician
Known for
AwardsGuy Medal (Gold, 1953)

Sir Austin Bradford Hill[a] CBE FRS[3] (8 July 1897 – 18 April 1991) was an English epidemiologist who pioneered the modern randomised clinical trial and, together with Richard Doll, demonstrated the connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. Hill is widely known for pioneering the "Bradford Hill" criteria for determining a causal association.[4][5]

  1. ^ Armitage, P (May 1991). "Obituary: Sir Austin Bradford Hill, 1897–1991". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society). 154 (3): 482–484. doi:10.1111/j.1467-985X.1991.tb00329.x.
  2. ^ Doll, Richard (1993). "Austin Bradford Hill, 1897–1991". Statistics in Medicine. 12 (8): 795–808. doi:10.1002/sim.4780120808. PMC 1848247. PMID 20326855.
  3. ^ Doll, R. (1994). "Austin Bradford Hill. 8 July 1897 – 18 April 1991". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 40: 128–140. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1994.0032.
  4. ^ Farewell, V.; Johnson, T. (2010). "Woods and Russell, Hill, and the emergence of medical statistics". Statistics in Medicine. 29 (14): 1459–1476. doi:10.1002/sim.3893. PMC 2991772. PMID 20535761.
  5. ^ Armitage, P. (1991). "Obituary: Sir Austin Bradford Hill, 1897–1991". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. 154 (3): 482–484. doi:10.1111/j.1467-985X.1991.tb00329.x. JSTOR 2983156.


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