Awards & Winners

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

Date of Birth 05-April-1886
Place of Birth Baden-Baden
(Germany, Baden-Württemberg)
Nationality United Kingdom
Also know as Frederick Alexander Lindemann
Profession Physicist
Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell FRS PC CH was an English physicist and an influential scientific adviser to the British government in the early 1940s and early 1950s, particularly to Winston Churchill. He advocated the "area" bombing of German cities during World War II and doubted the sophistication of Nazi Germany's radar technology and the existence of its "V" weapons programme.

Awards by Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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1956


Hughes Medal
(For his distinguished work in many fields: the meting point formula and theory of specific heats; ionisation of stars; meteors and temperature inversion in the stratosphere.)