ROTHSCHILD, NATHANIEL MAYER VICTOR, LORD
- ROTHSCHILD, NATHANIEL MAYER VICTOR, LORD
- ROTHSCHILD, NATHANIEL MAYER VICTOR, LORD (1910–1990), British
biologist. A fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1935–39), he served
in military intelligence during World War II and was
awarded the George Medal (1944) and the U.S. Legion of Merit (1946). On
his return to civilian life, he pursued research in embryology,
particularly on the biochemistry and physiology of the egg and sperm
cells. Investigating the reactions leading to fertilization in a series
of research projects with M.M. Swann (1949–52), Lord Rothschild showed
that fertilization brings about changes in the egg surface which protect
the egg against the penetration of additional spermatozoa. His book
Fertilization (1956) described the fertilization process in
invertebrates, vertebrates, and plants. His other publications include
A Classification of Living Animals (1961, 19652).
From 1948 to 1958, Lord Rothschild was chairman of the British
Agricultural Research Council and from 1950 he was assistant director of
research in the department of zoology of Cambridge. In 1965 he became
research coordinator of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. Rothschild served
as director-general of the Central Policy Review Staff ("Think-Tank") of
the British Cabinet Office from 1971 to 1974 and as chairman of the
Royal Commission on Gambling from 1976. He was elected a fellow of the
Royal Society. Keenly interested in Israel, he was appointed a governor
of the Weizmann Institute of Science and of the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem. He was appointed GBC Knight (Grand Cross of
the Order of the British Empire) in 1975. His autobiography
Meditations of a Broomstick was published in 1977.
See rothschild family .
(Mordecai L. Gabriel and
Henry Wasserman)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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