The Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK's
Ministry of Defence
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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. There is also a Chief Scientific Adviser (Nuclear), responsible for the MOD’s nuclear science and technology programme, currently held by Professor Robin Grimes.
List of MOD Chief Scientific Advisers
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Henry Tizard, 1946–1952
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John Cockcroft, 1952–1954
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Frederick Brundrett, 1954–1960
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Solly Zuckerman, 1960–1965
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Alan Cottrell, 1966–1967
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William Cook, 1966–1970
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Hermann Bondi
Sir Hermann Bondi (1 November 1919 – 10 September 2005) was an Austrian- British mathematician and cosmologist.
He is best known for developing the steady state model of the universe with Fred Hoyle and Thomas Gold as an alternative to the ...
, 1971–1977
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Ronald Mason, 1977–1983
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Richard Oswald Chandler Norman, 1983–1988
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Ronald Oxburgh, 1988–1993
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David Davies, 1993–1999
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Keith O'Nions
Sir Robert Keith O'Nions FRS HonFREng (born 26 September 1944), is a British scientist and ex-President & Rector of Imperial College London. He is the former Director General of the Research Councils UK as well as Professor of the Physics and C ...
, 2000–2004
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Roy Anderson, 2004–2008
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Mark Welland, 2008–2012
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Vernon Gibson, 2012–2016
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Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte, 2017–2018
* Simon Cholerton, 2018–2019 (''interim'')
* Dame
Angela McLean
Angela McLean (born August 19, 1970) is an American politician and educator who served as the 35th Lieutenant Governor of Montana from February 10, 2014, to January 3, 2016. Governor Steve Bullock, a Democrat, selected McLean in 2014 to replac ...
, since 2019
See also
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Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, ( ; 5 April 18863 July 1957) was a British physicist who was prime scientific adviser to Winston Churchill in World War II.
Lindemann was a brilliant intellectual, who cut through burea ...
Notes
External links
MOD Defence Science and Technology
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Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)
Science and technology in the United Kingdom
Chief scientific advisers by country