Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
(1886-1957)
British physicist
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Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell CH PC FRS (5 April 1886 – 3 July 1957), pronounced /ˈtʃɑːrwɛl/ CHAR-well, was an English physicist and an influential scientific adviser to the British government from the early 1940s to the early 1950s, particularly to Winston Churchill. He advocated the "area" bombing of German cities during the Second World War and doubted the sophistication of Nazi Germany's radar technology and the existence of its "V" weapons programme.
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5 April 1886 Baden-Baden, Germany
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3 July 1957 (aged 71)
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