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3 july 1957 -lrb- aged 71 -rrb- 5 april 1886 1945 1953 university of berlin 200px 1942 1951 reginald victor jones lindemann frederick.jpg the viscount cherwell sir william jowitt the lord macdonald of gwaenysgor baden-baden , germany paymaster general paymaster general physics royal of oxford -lrb- 1919 -- 40 , 1945 -- ? aircraft -rrb- british government -lrb- 1940 -- 45 , 1951 -- factory 53 -rrb- -lrb- 1915 -- 19 -rrb- university `` melting criterion dehousing '' paper lindemann mechanism lindemann index lindemann walther nernst '' the earl of selkirk ` vacant '' ' next holder arthur greenwood frederick lindemann , 1st viscount cherwell
 fellow of the royal society
frederick lindemann , 1st viscount cherwell

frederick alexander lindemann , 1st viscount cherwell ch pc frs -lrb- 5 april 18863 july 1957 -rrb- was an english physicist and an influential scientific adviser to the british government from the early 1940s to the early 1950s , particularly to winston churchill .
he advocated the `` area '' bombing of german cities during the second world war and doubted the sophistication of nazi germany 's radar technology and the existence of its `` v '' weapons programme .
