Solly Zuckerman

1904 - 1993  (88 years)    Has 2 ancestors and 2 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Solly Zuckerman
  Birth	30 May 1904
  Gender	Male
  Death	1 Apr 1993
  Person ID	I675298	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	10 Jan 2010

  
  

  Father	Moses Zuckerman   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Rebecca Glaser   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F297355	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Margaret Gardiner,   b. 22 Apr 1904, Berlin, Brandenburg, Deutschland d. 02 Jan 2005 (Age 100 years)
  Marriage	1920
  Family ID	F297353	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Jan 2010

  
  

  Family 2	Joan Rufus Isaacs   d. 2000
  Marriage	1939
  Children	1. Paul Zuckerman   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Stella Zuckerman   d. 1992
  Family ID	F297356	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Jan 2010

  
  

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  He was educated at the South African College School . After studying medicine at the University of Cape Town , and later attending Yale University , he came to London in 1926 to complete his studies at University College Hospital Medical School . He began his career at the London Zoological Society in 1928, and worked as a research anatomist until 1932. He taught at Oxford University from 1934-1945, during which time he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society . During World War II, Zuckerman worked on several research projects for the British government, including measuring the impact of bombing on people and buildings and an assessment of the bombardment ( Operation Corkscrew ) of the Italian island of Pantellaria in 1943. He was given an honorary commission as a wing commander in the Administrative and Special Duties Branch of the Royal Air Force on 13 May 1943, and promoted to honorary group captain on 20 September 1943. Zuckerman's suggestion, made when he was Scientific Director of the British Bombing Survey Unit, and accepted by Air Chief Marshal Arthur Tedder and Supreme Allied Commander U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower in the lead-up to the Normandy landings , that the Allies concentrate on disrupting the German-controlled French transportation system through heavy aerial bombing of rail lines and marshalling yards, was officially called the Transportation Plan, but was privately referred to by its opponents as "Zuckerman's Folly." A focus of Zuckerman's plan, learned in Italy, was to target locomotives and the capacity to service them due to a shortage in France prior to the Normandy Campaign. This had the effect of pushing rail heads back from the front causing trucks to be diverted from a role of maneuver to that of logistics, which resulted in greater gasoline consumption. After the war, Zuckerman and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1946 New Year Honours . He left the Royal Air Force on 1 September 1946, [10] and was then professor of anatomy at Birmingham University from until 1968, chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defence from 1960 to 1966, and chief scientific adviser to the British government from 1964 to 1971. He was also a member of a Royal Commission investigating environmental pollution from 26 February 1970. Zuckerman was against the developments of the nuclear arms race. This opposition began with his experience during World War II . He taught at the University of East Anglia from 1969-1974, where he was involved in setting up a school of environmental sciences. He served as secretary of the London Zoological Society from 1955-77 and as its President from 1977-84. Some of Zuckerman's achievements include becoming a pioneer in the study of primate behaviour. He is also credited for making science a normal part of government policy in the Western world. His more notable publications include The Social Life of Monkeys and Apes published in 1931, and Scientists and War in 1966. Zuckerman wrote two volumes of autobiography: From Apes to Warlords and Monkeys Men and Missiles. Zuckerman was knighted in the 1956 New Year Honours, promoted Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1964 New Year Honours, appointed to the Order of Merit on 23 April 1968, and was awarded a life peerage on 5 April 1971, taking the title, Baron Zuckerman, of Burnham Thorpe in the County of Norfolk . He met his future wife, Lady Joan Rufus Isaacs, daughter of the 2nd Marquess of Reading in Oxford . They married in 1939, and had two children, a son, Paul, and a daughter, Stella, who predeceased her father in 1992. Lady Zuckerman died in 2000. Martha Gellhorn describes Zuckerman in this way, in a letter written to his wife Joan in 1993, shortly after Zuckerman died: No doubt he was a strain as a husband, even as a father, but what a wonder he was in himself. The tirelessly inquiring mind, the energy for work, the variety of his thinking. As he grew old, his vanity was touching, as if he didn't really know his own unique value and he had to reassure himself with the names of all the important people he was seeing, when he was far more unusual and far brainier than any of them