Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.21667

    Portrait of William Richard Shaboe Doll

    Date
    1986
    Sitter
    William Richard Shaboe Doll (1912 - 2005, British) , Physician
    Creator
    Unknown, Photographer
    Creator - Organisation
    Godfrey Argent Studio, Photographer
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (print): 200mm
    width (print): 150mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of William Richard Shaboe Doll inclined to the right and looking out to viewer. He wears a mid-tone pin-striped suit jacket with white shirt and tie.

    Signed by the artist on the front mount and inscribed on the reverse ‘Box 3(2). PROFESSOR SIR WILLIAM RICHARD SHABOE DOLL F.R.S. 1966, 86 SGRS 8464/6.’

    Stamped ‘COPYRIGHT GODFREY ARGENT STUDIO, 12 HOLLAND ST. LONDON W8 4LT. TEL: 937 0441, 937 4008.’

    Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll (1912-2005), British physician and epidemiologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1966, he served on the Council from 1970 to 1971. He was awarded the Buchanan Medal in 1972 "for his outstanding studies on the aetiology, prevention and treatment of disease, especially cancer" and the Royal Medal in 1986 "In recognition of his pioneering use of statistical and epidemiological techniques to evaluate environmental factors in disease, notably that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease and bronchitis."

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