Discovered the link between smoking and cancer. Born Hampstead, son of Sir Leonard Hill and great-great nephew of Sir Rowland Hill. The family moved to Loughton in 1902.
Served in WW1 as a pilot in the RNVR. Post-war he studied and qualified in economics and then moved into medical statistics. 1945 he became chair and director of the Medical Research Council's statistical research unit. Retired 1961. Died at a nursing home in Cumbria.
Sources: and where we saw for the first time a very succinct way of presenting information on post-nominals: "Kt(1961) CBE(1951) PhD Econ Lond(1926) DSc(1929) FRS(1954) Hon FRCP(1963)".
The Royal Society article discusses Hill's methods of research into the links between smoking and cancer: "The tests that were then used to reach the conclusion that ‘smoking is a factor, and an important factor, in the production of carcinoma of the lung’ were subsequently formalized in Bradford Hill’s Presidential Address to the Section of Occupational Medicine of the Royal Society of Medicine (Hill, 1965) and summarized under nine heads in later editions of his Principles of Medical Statistics (Hill, 1966) ....."
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