Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell CH PC FRS , pronounced t r w l 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 Germanys radar technology and the existence of its V weapons programme.

Lindemann was the second of three sons of Adolph Friedrich Lindemann, who had emigrated to the United Kingdom circa 1871 and become naturalised. Frederick was born in BadenBaden in Germany where his American mother Olga Noble, the widow of a wealthy banker, was taking the cure.

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