death_date nationality fields birth_date article_title name
july 5 , 2003 -lrb- aged 95 -rrb- british medicine epidemiology 1908 robert edgar hope-simpson
 robert edgar hope-simpson
robert edgar hope-simpson

robert edgar hope-simpson -lrb- 1908 - 5 july 2003 -rrb- obe frcgp hon ffphm was a general practitioner .
he showed that shingles was caused by reactivation of the chickenpox virus .
