Austin Bradford Hill
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==Early life== |
==Early life== |
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[[File:At Nafferton Lodge on this site lived Sir Leonard Hill FRS (1866-1952) Medical researcher and his son Austin Bradford Hill FRS.jpg|thumb|[[Blue plaque]] commemorating the family home in Loughton]] |
[[File:At Nafferton Lodge on this site lived Sir Leonard Hill FRS (1866-1952) Medical researcher and his son Austin Bradford Hill FRS.jpg|thumb|[[Blue plaque]] commemorating the family home in Loughton]] |
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Hill was born in London on 8 July 1897.{{cite journal |last1=Doll |first1=William Richard Shaboe |title=Austin Bradford Hill, 8 July 1897 - 18 April 1991 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |date=November 1994 |volume=40 |pages=127–140 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.1994.0032 |doi-access=free|url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.1994.0032 |access-date=21 June 2025|url-access=subscription }} He was one of the sons of Sir [[Leonard Erskine Hill]] FRS, a distinguished physiologist, and Janet Alexander. He was the grandson of noted scholar [[George Birkbeck Hill]]. As a child he lived at the family home, Osborne House, [[Loughton]], Essex; he was educated at [[Chigwell School]], Essex. He served as a pilot in the [[First World War]] but was invalided out when he contracted [[tuberculosis]]. Two years in hospital and two years of convalescence put a medical qualification out of the question and he took a degree in economics by correspondence at [[London University]]. |
Hill was born in London on 8 July 1897.{{cite journal |last1=Doll |first1=William Richard Shaboe |title=Austin Bradford Hill, 8 July 1897 - 18 April 1991 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |date=November 1994 |volume=40 |pages=127–140 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.1994.0032 |doi-access=free|url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.1994.0032 |access-date=21 June 2025|url-access=subscription }} He was one of the sons of Sir [[Leonard Erskine Hill]] FRS, a distinguished physiologist, and Janet Alexander. He was the grandson of noted scholar [[George Birkbeck Hill]]. As a child he lived at the family home, Osborne House, [[Loughton]], Essex; he was educated at [[Chigwell School]], Essex. He served as a pilot in the [[First World War]] but was invalided out when he contracted [[tuberculosis]]. Two years in hospital and two years of convalescence put a medical qualification out of the question and he took a degree in economics by correspondence at [[London University]]. |
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==Career== |
==Career== |
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