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Government Chief Scientific Adviser (United Kingdom)

Index Government Chief Scientific Adviser (United Kingdom)

The UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) is the personal adviser on science and technology-related activities and policies to the Prime Minister and the Cabinet; and head of the Government Office for Science. [1]

20 relations: Alan Cottrell, Cabinet of the United Kingdom, Chief Medical Officer (United Kingdom), Chief Science Advisor (Canada), Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence, Chief scientific officer, David King (chemist), Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, Government Office for Science, John Ashworth (biologist), John Beddington, John Fairclough, Mark Walport, Patrick Vallance, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Robin Nicholson (metallurgist), Royal Society, Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman, William Stewart (biologist).

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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Cabinet of the United Kingdom

The Cabinet of the United Kingdom is the collective decision-making body of Her Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom, composed of the Prime Minister and 21 cabinet ministers, the most senior of the government ministers.

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Chief Medical Officer (United Kingdom)

The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) is the most senior advisor on health matters in a government.

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Chief Science Advisor (Canada)

The Government of Canada's Chief Science Advisor is Mona Nemer.

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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.

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Chief scientific officer

A chief science officer (C.S.O.) is a position at the head of scientific research operations at organizations or companies performing significant scientific research projects.

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David King (chemist)

Sir David Anthony King, FRS HonFREng (born 12 August 1939) is an Emeritus Professor in Physical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, Director of the Collegio Carlo Alberto, Chancellor of the University of Liverpool and a senior scientific adviser to UBS.

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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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Government Office for Science

The Government Office for Science is part of the British government.

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John Ashworth (biologist)

Sir John Ashworth (born 27 November 1938) is a scientist and educationalist.

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John Beddington

Sir John Rex Beddington, HonFREng, CMG, FRS, FRSE (born 13 October 1945) is Senior Adviser at the Oxford Martin School, and was previously Professor of Applied Population Biology at Imperial College London, and the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser from 2008 until 2013.

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John Fairclough

Sir John Whitaker Fairclough (23 August 1930 – 5 June 2003) was a British computer designer, and later government policy advisor.

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Mark Walport

Sir Mark Jeremy Walport HonFRSE (born 25 January 1953) is a medical scientist and the Government Chief Scientific Adviser in the United Kingdom from 2013 to 2017.

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Patrick Vallance

Patrick John Thompson Vallance One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (born 1960) is a British medical doctor, and the head of Research and development (R&D) at the British multinational pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is the head of the United Kingdom government.

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Robert May, Baron May of Oxford

Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford, HonFAIB (born 8 January 1936) is an Australian scientist who has been Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, President of the Royal Society, and a Professor at the University of Sydney and Princeton University.

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Robin Nicholson (metallurgist)

Sir Robin Buchanan Nicholson, FRS, FREng (born 12 August 1934 Warwickshire England) was a university and then industrial metallurgist, who served as Chief Scientific Adviser, Cabinet Office, from 1983 to 1985.

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Royal Society

The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, commonly known as the Royal Society, is a learned society.

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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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William Stewart (biologist)

Sir William Duncan Paterson Stewart, FRS, FRSE (born 6 June 1935) was President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1999–2002 and Chairman of the Microbiological Research Authority.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Chief_Scientific_Adviser_(United_Kingdom)

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