Ernst Wynder
Ernst Ludwig Wynder, M.D. (1922-1999) was an American epidemiology and public health researcher who studied the risk factors of smoking tobacco. His 1950 coauthored 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 identifying smoking as a contributory cause of lung cancer.
Personal facts
| Birth date | April 30, 1922 |
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| Date of death | July 14, 1999 |