British Medals from the Collection of James Spencer

Medical: England and Wales, London: Epidemiological Society, Jenner Medal, 1896, a bronze award medal by A. Wyon for Pinches, similar, edge named (15th Award 1965, Sir Austin Bradford Hill, CBE, D Sc, FRS), 64mm (Storer 1789; MJP p.37); Heberden Society, Heberden Medal, a bronze award, unsigned [by Pinches], bust of William Heberden three-quarters left, rev. legend, named (Sir Austin Bradford Hill, FRS, 1965), 51mm (MJP p.54) [2]. Extremely fine, a noted recipient (£50-70)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, British Medals from the Collection of James Spencer.

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Sir Austin Bradford Hill, CBE, FRS (1897-1991), epidemiologist, the world’s leading medical statistician of his time and the first person to demonstrate the connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer with research published in 1950; son of Sir Leonard Erskine Hill (for a medal to him see DNW 64, lot 1454); educ. Chigwell School; pilot in RFC in World War I, invalided out with tuberculosis; became reader in epidemiology and vital statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1933 and professor in 1947