Tennisarchives.com

General First nameFrederick Alexander
LastnameLindemann
GenderMale
CountryEngland
Date of birth1886-04-05
Place of birthBaden-Baden, Germany
Date of death1957-07-03
Place of deathOxford, Oxfordshire, England


About

From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Lindemann,_1st_Viscount_Cherwell

Frederick Alexander Lindeman was a British physicist who was prime scientific adviser to Winston Churchill in World War II. Lindemann was a brilliant intellectual, who cut through bureaucratic red tape that was hampering vital defence preparations against a German invasion. This caused sharp disagreements with many of the permanent bureaucracy. His contribution to Allied victory lay chiefly in embracing the art of the possible. He was particularly adept at converting data into clear charts to promote a strategy.

His approach to technology focused on rapid experiments and fast failures, to come up with the proper answer; this made him at target for bureaucratic ire and accusations. He was involved in the development of radar and infra-red guidance systems. He was skeptical of the first reports of the enemy’s V-weapons programme. He pressed the case for the strategic area bombing of cities.

His abiding influence on Churchill stemmed from close personal friendship, as a member of the latter’s country-house set. In Churchill’s second government, he was given a seat in the cabinet, and later created Viscount Cherwell of Oxford.

Lindemann was the second of three sons of Adolph Friedrich Lindemann, who had emigrated to the United Kingdom circa 1871 and became naturalised. Frederick was born in Baden-Baden in Germany, where his American mother Olga Noble, the widow of a wealthy banker, was “taking the cure”.

After schooling in Scotland and Darmstadt, he attended the University of Berlin, where he studied under Walther Nernst. He carried out research in physics at the Sorbonne that confirmed theories, first put forward by Albert Einstein, on specific heats at very low temperatures. For this and other scientific work, Lindemann was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1920.

Media


Archive statistics Career1903 - 1920
Tournament wins1
Matches41
Match wins16


Tournament wins 1906 - Darmstadt (Amateur)


Tournaments Wimbledon - 1920 Surrey Hard Court Championships - 1920 Prussian Championships - 1912 Heiligendammer Cup - 1912 Championships of Weimar - 1911 Homburg Cup - 1909 Baden-Baden - 1909 South of England Championships - 1909 London Covered Court Championships - 1909 Wiesbaden Cup - 1908 Homburg Cup - 1908 Wiesbaden Championships - 1908 Wiesbaden Cup - 1907 Homburg Cup - 1907 Wiesbaden Championships - 1907 Wiesbaden Cup - 1906 Homburg Cup - 1906 Baden-Baden - 1906 Wiesbaden Championships - 1906 Darmstadt - 1906 European Championship - 1905 Homburg Cup - 1905 Wiesbaden Championships - 1905 Homburg Cup - 1904 Championships of Mannheim - 1903 Darmstadt - 1903