Ernst Wynder

Ernst Ludwig Wynder, M.D. was an American epidemiology and public health researcher who studied the health effects of smoking tobacco. His 1950 coauthored publication of Tobacco Smoking as a Possible Etiologic Factor in Bronchiogenic Carcinoma A Study of 684 Proved Cases appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It was one of the first major scientific publications identifying smoking as a contributory cause of lung cancer.

Wynder was born in Herford, Westphalia in 1922 to Jewish parents . In 1938 his family escaped Nazi rule and fled to the United States, where Wynder enrolled at New York University. During World War II, he attained citizenship and joined the U.S. Army, where, as a Germanspeaker, he was assigned to a psychological warfare unit to monitor German newscasts. After the war, he attended medical school at Washington University in St. Louis. In 1950, he received both a bachelor of science and a medical degree. Aside from his credentials as a physician, Wynder was a researcher, educator, and activist. He devoted his career to the study and prevention of cancer and chronic disease, including the publication of hundreds of scientific papers. Through the 1950s and 1960s, he worked at SloanKettering Institute for Cancer Research. In 1969, he founded the American Health Foundation. In 1972, he founded the academic journal Preventive Medicine and served as the founding editor. Wynder died from thyroid

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