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Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence

Index Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence

The Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK's Ministry of Defence is responsible for providing strategic management of science and technology issues in the MOD, most directly through the MOD research budget of well over £1 billion, and sits as a full member of the Defence Management Board and the Defence Council, the two most senior management boards within the MOD. [1]

18 relations: Alan Cottrell, David Davies (electrical engineer), Defence Council of the United Kingdom, Frederick Brundrett, Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, Henry Tizard, Hermann Bondi, Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte, John Cockcroft, Keith O'Nions, Mark Welland, Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom), Richard Norman (chemist), Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh, Roy M. Anderson, Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman, Vernon C. Gibson, William Richard Joseph Cook.

Alan Cottrell

Sir Alan Howard Cottrell, FRS (17 July 1919 – 15 February 2012) was an English metallurgist and physicist, former Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government and vice-chancellor of Cambridge University 1977–1979.

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David Davies (electrical engineer)

Sir David Evan Naunton Davies, known as Den Davies or David "DEN" Davies, (born 1935) is a British electrical engineer and educator.

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Defence Council of the United Kingdom

The Defence Council of the United Kingdom is the body legally entrusted with the defence of the United Kingdom and its overseas territories and with control over the British armed forces, and is part of the Ministry of Defence.

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Frederick Brundrett

Sir Frederick Brundrett, (25 November 1894 – 1 August 1974) was a British mathematician and civil servant who served as the Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence from 1954 to 1959.

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Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, (5 April 18863 July 1957) was a British physicist and an influential scientific adviser to the British government from the early 1940s to the early 1950s, particularly to Winston Churchill.

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Henry Tizard

Sir Henry Thomas Tizard (23 August 1885 – 9 October 1959) was an English chemist, inventor and Rector of Imperial College, who developed the modern "octane rating" used to classify petrol, helped develop radar in World War II, and led the first serious studies of UFOs.

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Hermann Bondi

Sir Hermann Bondi (1 November 1919 – 10 September 2005) was an Anglo-Austrian mathematician and cosmologist.

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Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte

Hugh Francis Durrant-Whyte, (born 6 February 1961) is a British-Australian engineer and academic.

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John Cockcroft

Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, (27 May 1897 – 18 September 1967) was a British physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atomic nucleus with Ernest Walton, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.

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Keith O'Nions

Sir Robert Keith O'Nions FRS Hon.

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Mark Welland

Sir Mark Edward Welland, (born 18 October 1955) is professor of nanotechnology at the University of Cambridge and head of the Nanoscience Centre.

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Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)

The Ministry of Defence (MoD or MOD) is the British government department responsible for implementing the defence policy set by Her Majesty's Government and is the headquarters of the British Armed Forces.

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Richard Norman (chemist)

Sir Richard Oswald Chandler Norman, (April 27, 1932 – June 6, 1993) was a British chemist.

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Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh

Ernest Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh, KBE, FRS, HonFREng (born 2 November 1934) is a British geologist, geophysicist, and politician.

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Roy M. Anderson

Sir Roy Malcolm Anderson (born 12 April 1947) is a leading British expert on epidemiology.

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Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman

Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman (30 May 1904 – 1 April 1993) was a British public servant, zoologist and operational research pioneer.

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Vernon C. Gibson

Vernon Charles Gibson (born 15 November 1958) is a British scientist who served as Chief Scientific Adviser at the Ministry of Defence between 2012 and 2016.

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William Richard Joseph Cook

Sir William Richard Joseph Cook, (10 April 1905 – 16 September 1987) was a British mathematician and civil servant.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Scientific_Adviser_to_the_Ministry_of_Defence

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