Ernst Wynder
Ernst Wynder · Science & Medicine
Epidemiologist whose research helped establish the link between smoking and lung cancer.
1922, Herford, Germany — 1999, New York City, United States
Germany · United States
Ernst Wynder is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Epidemiologist whose research helped establish the link between smoking and lung cancer.
Wynder was an epidemiologist whose landmark 1950 study with Evarts Graham helped establish the causal link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer, and he became a founding figure of modern preventive medicine. He was born into a Jewish family in Germany and fled with his family from Nazi persecution to the United States in 1938.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Epidemiologist whose research helped establish the link between smoking and lung cancer.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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