1. Who Are They. And How Are They Connected
Who Are They? And How Are They Connected? Famous statisticians, public health people and others famous individuals related to LSHTM and its surroundings A short quiz where everyone’s a winner! MSU Retreat Cambridge 1st April 2008

2. Connected to famous early work of LSHTM
Sir Ronald Ross ( )
Connected to famous early work of LSHTM
First Briton to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine (1902)
Discovered that mosquitoes transmit malaria (1897)
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine

3. Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
Crimea war started in July 1854
‘Real enemies not the Russians but cholera, typhus and dysentry’
Charge of the Light Brigade: October 1854
In 1858 she became the first woman to be elected a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society for her contribution to Army statistics and comparative hospital statistics

4. Thomas Wakely (1795 - 1862) founded the Lancet in 1823
1823,1923,1990,2005
Thomas Wakely ( ) founded the Lancet in 1823
-Radical journalist William Cobbett proposed that a journal like the Lancet could be used to campaign for reforms in the medical profession
A surgeon who spent 17 years in the House of Commons

5. Well-known for recent work on causality in epidemiology
John Snow ( )
Sander Greenland
Traced source of a cholera outbreak in Soho in 1854
Study of causality
One of first physicians to study use of ether and chloroform
Administered chloroform to Queen Victoria for birth of last 2 children
Well-known for recent work on causality in epidemiology

6. Francis Galton ( )
Charles Darwin ( )
Francis Galton and Charles Darwin were half-cousins
Galton
correlation, regression and regression to the mean
studied human intelligence
founded Biometrika with Pearson and Weldon in 1901
undertook eugenics work considered controversial today
International Eugenics Conference, London, 1912 dedicated to Galton

7. English[ cette homme ] + “er” = This man
Siméon Denis POISSON
Ronald A. FISHER
French statistician,
English statistician,
English[ cette homme ] + “er” = This man

8. William Gossett (1876-1937) A pint of Guiness
Arthur Guiness born 1725 in Kildare
Brewing industry was suffering since English beer was less heavily taxed than Irish
Brewed strong black beer in 1770 which became very successful
A chemist at the Guinness brewery in Dublin from 1899
Student’s t distribution
To handle small samples for quality control in brewing

9. James Lind (1716-1794) Stuart Pocock
Thought to have performed the first ever clinical trial
Demonstrated that citrus fruits cure scurvy
Pioneer of naval hygiene
Worked on preventive medicine and hygiene and cleanliness
One of our own famous clinical trialists

10. Austin Bradford Hill (1897-1991) Sir Richard Doll (1912-2005)
Joint work on smoking and lung cancer
1950 case-control study
British doctors study
Hill:
MSU from 1947
MRC statistician on what many believe to be the first RCT (use of streptomycin in the treatment of tuberculosis) as opposed to Lind
Fisher was highly critical of the smoking/cancer work but proposed that Hill be made a fellow of the Royal Society

11. John Maynard Keynes
( )
Virginia Woolf
( )
Members of the Bloomsbury Group
First half of 20th century
Started with a few Cambridge graduates and their friends
Keynes
economist
Woolf
Lived at 46 Gordon Square
Author of Mrs Dalloway, Orlando, To the Lighthouse

12. Artemis
Goddess of hunting and chastity, comforter of women in childbirth
Apollo
God of prophecy, music and medicine
LSHTM seal
Artemis is driving chariot whilst Apollo is shooting arrows
Date palm for the tropical activities of the School and connection to
birth of Apollo and Artemis- palm sprang up to give shade in childbirth
Staff with a snake coiled for medical interests of the School

13. LSHTM

14. Nathan Mantel & William Haenszel
“Statistical Aspects of the Analysis of Data from Retrospective Studies of Disease” JNCI, 1959; 22:
Nathan Mantel & William Haenszel 

15. Austin Bradford Hill (1897-1991)
MSU from 1947
MRC statistician on what many believe to be the first RCT
Use of streptomycin in the treatment of tuberculosis
Work on smoking and lung cancer with Richard Doll
1950 case-control study
British doctors study
Fisher was highly critical of the smoking/cancer work but proposed that he be made a fellow of the Royal Society
Peter Armitage (1924-)
Professor in MSU
Said of Austin Bradford Hill on his death:
“to anyone involved in medical statistics, epidemiology or public health, Bradford Hill was quite simply the world’s leading medical statistician ”

16. Pearson
Neyman