ZUCKERMAN, SOLLY, LORD

ZUCKERMAN, SOLLY, LORD
ZUCKERMAN, SOLLY, LORD (1904–1993), British anatomist. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Zuckerman settled in England, where he first taught at London University (1928–32). As research anatomist to the Zoological Society of London, he studied the behavior of primates, this interest having been stimulated by earlier observations on wild baboons in South Africa. He described his researches in The Social Life of Monkeys and Apes (1932). As a research associate at Yale University (1933–34), he extended his primate studies and in Functional Affinities of Man, Monkeys, and Apes (1933) dealt with the behavior, comparative physiology, and reproductive patterns of the primates. Zuckerman taught anatomy at Oxford (1934–45) and became Hunterian professor at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1937, also lecturing on anatomy at the University of Birmingham from 1939. During World War II he was scientific adviser to the British armed forces. After the war Zuckerman became increasingly involved in problems of British government policy related to science. He was chairman of the Defense Research Policy Committee (1960–64) and chairman of the Committee on Scientific Manpower (1950–64). From 1966 to 1971 he was chief scientific adviser to the British government. His book Scientists and War (1966) dealt with the relation of science to military affairs and social policy. He also wrote A New System of Anatomy (1961) and The Image of Technology (1968). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1943. Zuckerman was knighted in 1956, was awarded the Order of Merit (in 1968), the French Legion of Honor, and the U.S. Medal of Freedom, and received a life peerage in 1971. He married the daughter of the second marquess of reading and was a governor of the Weizmann Institute, Rehovot. (Mordecai L. Gabriel)

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