Stanhope Bayne-Jones

Who was Stanhope Bayne-Jones?

Stanhope Bayne-Jones was a physician, an American bacteriologist, a United States Army medical officer, and a medical historian.

As a member of the United States Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health, he had a significant role in the 1964 report linking smoking to cancer.

He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on November 6, 1888, and died on February 10, 1970, in Washington, DC. Bayne-Jones was the subject of a biography in 1992.

Bayne-Jones Community Hospital at the US Army's Fort Polk is named in his honor, as is a professorship at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

His papers were donated to the National Library of Medicine in the late 1960s.