The Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK's

Ministry of Defence A ministry of defence or defense (see American and British English spelling differences#-ce.2C -se, spelling differences), also known as a department of defence or defense, is the part of a government responsible for matters of defence and Mi ...

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 Bill Lee.

List of MOD Chief Scientific Advisers

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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 fir ...

, 1946–1952 * Sir

John Cockcroft Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (27 May 1897 – 18 September 1967) was an English nuclear physicist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ernest Walton for their splitting of the atomic nucleus, which was instrumental in the developmen ...

, 1952–1954 * Sir Frederick Brundrett, 1954–1960 * Sir

Solly Zuckerman Solomon "Solly" Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman (30 May 1904 – 1 April 1993) was a British public servant, zoologist and operational research pioneer. He is best remembered as a scientific advisor to the Allies on bombing strategy in the Second ...

, 1960–1965 * Sir Alan Cottrell, 1966–1967 * Sir William Cook, 1966–1970 * Sir

Hermann Bondi Sir Hermann Bondi (1 November 1919 – 10 September 2005) was an Austrian-British people, British mathematician and physical cosmology, cosmologist. He is best known for developing the steady state model of the universe with Fred Hoyle and Thom ...

, 1971–1977 * Sir Ronald Mason, 1977–1983 * Sir Richard Oswald Chandler Norman, 1983–1988 * Sir Ronald Oxburgh, 1988–1993 * Sir David Davies, 1993–1999 * Sir Keith O'Nions, 2000–2004 * Sir Roy Anderson, 2004–2008 * Sir Mark Welland, 2008–2012 * Professor Vernon Gibson, 2012–2016 * Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte, 2017–2018 * Simon Cholerton, 2018–2019 (''interim'') * Dame Angela McLean 2019-2023 * Professor Vernon Gibson, 2023−present

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List of MOD Chief Scientific Advisers

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