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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Lancet's curt obituary for John Snow, the first physician to correctly identify the epidemiology of the London cholera epidemic, "is analogous to a literary magazine who, at the time of ...

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 ...

In a now legendary experiment in 1854, Dr. John Snow, a London physician, conducted a simple yet brilliant test that helped to settle the debate about the transmission of cholera. Snow drew a map [see ...

John Snow was an English physician in the 19th century. He is considered to be one of the fathers of modern epidemiology due to the fact that his work traced the source of a cholera outbreak in ...