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Lord Cherwell
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(Frederick Lindemann, 1886–1957, baron Cherwell 1941, viscount 1957)
Physicist who had great influence during World War II as *Churchill's personal assistant and scientific adviser, holding the post of paymaster general in 1942–5 (he was more widely known as 'the Prof'). In World War I he worked out on scientific principles how to bring a plane out of a previously fatal spin, and then courageously demonstrated the technique.
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