Brian MacMahon Scientist

| awards = Charles S. Mott Prize (1992)Brian MacMahon (23 August 1923 – 5 December 2007) was a British-born United States epidemiologist who chaired the Department of Epidemiology of the Harvard School of Public Health from 1958 until 1988. Best known for his work on the epidemiology of breast cancer, he also pioneered research on associations between passive smoking and lung cancer, and between diet and risk of cancer.

Personal facts

Birth dateAugust 23, 1923
Birth place
Sheffield
Date of deathDecember 05, 2007
Education
University of Birmingham

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Field of study
Epidemiology

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  1. https://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/330/2/81