(Have been meaning to post this all week) Very sad to hear of the death of Sir Richard Doll. I don’t have anything to add other than what I wrote on the BBC Tributes page, but I’ll include it here just in case that page ever goes away:
I work in the Sir Richard Doll Building in Oxford, a new centre for epidemiological and clinical research which was completed earlier this year and named in his honour. I trust that the hundreds of scientific staff will do justice to his legacy by continuing to carry out world-class medical research. He never stopped working and I saw him frequenting ‘his’ building a number of times, and he mentioned to me that he had been visiting there “a couple of times per week”. Very sad to hear of his death: he made a lifetime’s fantastic contribution to medical science.
There are some photos of ‘our’ Richard Doll Building I refer to above, available here.