{"id":193,"date":"2005-07-27T19:57:47","date_gmt":"2005-07-27T19:57:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-09-18T14:34:19","modified_gmt":"2005-09-18T13:34:19","slug":"professor-sir-richard-doll-1912-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Professor Sir Richard Doll, 1912-2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>(Have been meaning to post this all week)<\/i> Very sad to hear of the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/1218554.stm\">death of Sir Richard Doll<\/a>.  I don&#8217;t have anything to add other than what I wrote on the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/talking_point\/4713231.stm\">BBC Tributes page<\/a>, but I&#8217;ll include it here just in case that page ever goes away:<\/p>\n<p><i>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 &#8216;his&#8217; building a number of times, and he mentioned to me that he had been visiting there &#8220;a couple of times per week&#8221;. Very sad to hear of his death: he made a lifetime&#8217;s fantastic contribution to medical science.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>There are some photos of &#8216;our&#8217; Richard Doll Building I refer to above, available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/rdbphotos\/rdbphotos.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Have been meaning to post this all week) Very sad to hear of the death of Sir Richard Doll. I don&#8217;t have anything to add other than what I wrote on the BBC Tributes page, but I&#8217;ll include it here just in case that page ever goes away: I work in the Sir Richard Doll&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=193\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}