Background
Doll, William Richard Shaboe was born on October 28, 1912 in Hampton on the River Thames, England. Son of William and Kathleen Doll.
Doll, William Richard Shaboe was born on October 28, 1912 in Hampton on the River Thames, England. Son of William and Kathleen Doll.
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Medicine, St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School, University London, 1937. Doctor of Medicine, St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School, University London, 1945. Doctor of Science, St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School, University London, 1958.
DM, Oxford University, 1969.
Medical officer, France, 1939—1940. Medical specialist Middle East, 1941—1944. With St. Thomas Hospital medical unit, 1945—1948, Medical Research Council's Statistical Research Unit, 1948—1969, deputy director, 1959—1961, director, 1961—1969.
Lecturer London School Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1956—1962. Member advisory committee on medical research World Health Organization, 1963. Member council International Epidemiological Association, 1961, Science Committee International Agency for Cancer Research, 1965—1970, 1975—1978, Hebdomadal Council, Oxford University, 1975—1981.
Regius professor medicine Oxford University, 1969—1979. Founding warden Green College, Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, 1979—1983. With Imperial Cancer Research Fund Epidemiology Unit (Imperial Cancer Research Fund and the Cancer Research Campaign merged to become Cancer Research United Kingdom, and the Unit was renamed the Cancer Research United Kingdom Epidemiology Unit), 1983—2005.
Member Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, 1973—1979, Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment, 1978—1981, Scientific Council of the International Cancer Research Agency, 1966—1970. Honorary associate Physician Central Middlesex Hospital, 1949—1969. Chairman Medical Research Council Committee, 1986, National Council on Radiation Protection, Adverse Reaction Sub-Committee on the Safety of Medicines, 1970—1977, United Kingdom Co-ordinating Committee on Cancer Research.
Served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, 1939-1945, World World War II.
Fellow: Royal Society (vice president 1970-1971). Member: International Epidemiological Society, American Epidemiological Society, American Gastroenterol. Association, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Norwegian Academy of Sciences.
Married Joan Faulkner Blatchford, 1946. 2 children.