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Abraham Lilienfeld

Abraham Morris Lilienfeld (November 13, 1920 – August 6, 1984) was an American epidemiologist and professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health serving in various roles; from lecturer in 1950, he rose to head of the Department of Chronic Diseases in 1961 and chair of the Department of Epidemiology in 1971 before he resigned in 1975. Lilienfeld was known for his work in expanding epidemiology to focus on chronic diseases as well as infectious ones. He also advocated for the link between smoking and lung cancer as early as 1962. The American College of Epidemiology's most prestigious award, the "Abraham Lilienfeld Award", is named in his honour. Provided by Wikipedia