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Science 24 August 2001:
Vol. 293. no. 5534, p. 1440
DOI: 10.1126/science.1061356
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BIOGRAPHY:
The Model Science Adviser

A review by Keith O'Nions

Solly Zuckerman A Scientist out of the Ordinary
John Peyton
John Murray, London, 2001. 286 pp. £22.50. ISBN 0-7195-6283-X.

Peyton offers readers an account of the life of the anatomist and physiologist whose influential advice helped shape UK (and US) policies on matters ranging from bombing strategy during the Normany invasion to nuclear weapons policies during the 1960s.
The author is at the Ministry of Defence, Old War Office Building, Whitehall, London SW1A 2EU, UK. E-mail: CSA/PA{at}mod.gsi.gov.uk

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