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category	tags	summary	born	died	location
Scientists & Researchers	Person Researcher	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.	1886-04-05	1957-07-03	Baden-Baden, Germany

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 and Chaim Weizmann during this period.¹

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