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born: 1886-04-05
category: Scientists & Researchers
died: 1957-07-03
location: Baden-Baden, Germany
summary: Oxford scientist and Lord Cherwell who served as Churchill's chief science
  adviser and formed early connections with figures central to Israel's nuclear program
  origins.
tags:
- Person
- Researcher
---

Frederick A. Lindemann, later Lord Cherwell, was a German-born Oxford scientist who became Winston Churchill's chief science adviser in the years before World War II. He came to know [Ernst David Bergmann](/people/ernst-david-bergmann/) and [Chaim Weizmann](/people/chaim-weizmann/) during this period.[^1]

[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 2.