Solly ZUckerman, Baron Zuckerman. British Zoologist and political adviser. Born in Cape Town in British Cape Colony (South Africa).He attended Oxford University in 1934 and is known for a scientific adviser to the Allies on bombing strategy during WWII. A professor of anatomy at Birmingham (1946-68) and chief scientific adviser to the British government (1964-71). He carried out extensive research into primates, publishing such classic works as 'The Social Life of Monkeys and Apes' (1932). He was knighted in 1956 and made a life peer in 1971. He died of a heart attack in London, England at the age of 88.
Solly ZUckerman, Baron Zuckerman. British Zoologist and political adviser. Born in Cape Town in British Cape Colony (South Africa).He attended Oxford University in 1934 and is known for a scientific adviser to the Allies on bombing strategy during WWII. A professor of anatomy at Birmingham (1946-68) and chief scientific adviser to the British government (1964-71). He carried out extensive research into primates, publishing such classic works as 'The Social Life of Monkeys and Apes' (1932). He was knighted in 1956 and made a life peer in 1971. He died of a heart attack in London, England at the age of 88.
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