John Snow, Father of Epidemiology A London physician by the name of John Snow mapped out the spread of a cholera outbreak in the city 150 years ago.

John Snow is often called the founder of epidemiology, the study of health in populations. He is best known for his work on tracking the spread of cholera during an epidemic in London in 1854. It ...

Game of Thrones' Jon Snow may know nothing, but the real-life John Snow knew a heck of a lot. In fact, the 19th century Snow helped found the entire field of epidemiology with his revolutionary ...

In 1854, as a cholera epidemic killed hundreds in London, an English physician named John Snow was determined to find out how the disease was transmitted. Snow doubted the prevailing belief that ...

In 1849, five whole years before the famous map, John Snow published his arguments in a work titled On the Mode of Communication of Cholera.In this short book, Snow does not mince his words ...

On the first day of his epidemiology course at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Professor Paul Fine tells the story of John Snow. Snow was a doctor in Victorian London, and he was ...

Head to Soho in London and you might find an epidemiologist or two on a pilgrimage to Broadwick Street and the memorial to John Snow. There you'll find a public water pump with its handle missing; a ...

John Snow, the father of modern epidemiology! On September 7, 1854, Dr. John Snow took his research to the officials, who reluctantly agreed to his suggestion and took the handle off a pump.