Solly Zuckerman

Environmentalist, zoologist and Whitehall mandarin, Solly Zuckerman became one of the Allied leaders' most influential advisors during the war, and later the British government's chief scientific advisor. He was among the first to warn against the nuclear arms race, and of the threat posed to the climate by population growth.

Born in South Africa, Zuckerman published a bestseller on the social life of primates while a researcher at London Zoo. A friend of Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore and ...