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Ernst Ludwig Wynder
(30 Apr 1922 - 14 Jul 1999)
German-American physician who, as early as 1950, provided chemical proof of the carcinogenic potential of tobacco smoke and tobacco itself, indicting it. He further identified excessive tobacco use with cancers of the oral cavity, esophagus, larynx, pancreas and bladder.
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Science Quotes by Ernst Ludwig Wynder (1 quote)
Excessive and prolonged use of tobacco, especially cigarettes, seems to be an important factor in the induction of bronchiogenic carcinoma. Among 605 men with bronchiogenic carcinoma, other than adenocarcinoma, 96.5 per cent were moderately heavy to chain smokers for many years, compared with 73.7 per cent among the general male hospital population without cancer. Among the cancer group 51.2 per cent were excessive or chain smokers compared to 19.1 per cent in the general hospital group without cancer.
[Co-author with Evarts Ambrose Graham]
[Co-author with Evarts Ambrose Graham]
— Ernst Ludwig Wynder
In Ernst Wynder and Evarts Ambrose Graham, 'Tobacco Smoking as a Possible Etiologic Factor in Bronchiogenic Carcinoma', The Journal of the American Medical Association (1950), 143, 336. Graham was an American surgeon (1883-1957).
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- 30 Apr - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Wynder's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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