The 27 March 98 SCIENCE WEEK also reports on the death of epidemiologist
W.M. Haenzel at age 87.

Haenzel, among other things, designed and set up the first national system
in the U.S. (SEER) to track cases of cancer and their possible causes.
This system produced some of the strongest early evidence of a link between
lung cancer and smoking.  It also demonstrated that high stomach rates in
Japan were no longer found in Japanese who emigrated to Hawaii, identifying
a correlation between diet and cancer.

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 "Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something
  mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."  Goethe (1749-1832)