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The technical input into the war effort was transformed when Churchill became Prime Minister in May 1940. He not only actively supported technology and innovation but ‘brought to the pursuit of science the same boundless energy with which he prosecuted every other aspect of the war.’

He appointed his friend and confidante, Frederick Lindemann (later Lord Cherwell) FRS, a former head of Oxford’s Clarendon Laboratory, as his special scientific advisor. Scientific American has described him as ‘the most powerful scientist ever’. The two met almost daily, and Lindemann attended meetings of the War Cabinet.