Scientific advisers

It has occurred to the author, in his role of Senior Scientific Adviser for the Eastern Region (Home Office), that some of the chapters might prove of interest to Technical Reconnaissance Officers and to those whom they instruct. 

Within the medical department there may be two types of information support. There will be medical information scientists, who provide the external scientific service, now required by Article 13 of Directive 92/28/EEC (on advertising) of the Council of the European Communities. In addition, there may be those, sometimes called scientific advisers, who provide specialised information support to a product or therapy area within the company. Many medical information scientists are qualified pharmacists. 

U.S. one the Manhattan Project. Bohr was made a scientific adviser to Tube Alloys and an adviser to the American project also. He left London on November 28, bound for the United States, where he spent eight months at Los Alamos. 

Note of meeting between Wilson and Healey, 8 Oct. 1965, PREM 13/216, TNA. Zuckerman to Prime Minister (personal), 14 Nov. 1965, PREM 13/216, and 7 Jan. 1966, PREM 13/799, TNA. Healey complained in his memoirs that Zuckerman would go behind his back to other ministers for help when Healey disagreed with him, and Healey eventually persuaded Wilson to transfer the Chief Scientific Adviser from the Ministry of Defence to the Prime Minister s Office Time of My Life, p. 260). 

In the UK, the use of animals is regulated by the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act, 1986. For a general account of controls over the use of animals in science see Monamy (2000). For restrictions on the use of humans in medical research see World Medical Association (2000). So, for example, the European Commission rebuked a group of its scientific advisers for publicly disagreeing with its decision to ban the use of phthalate softeners in certain baby toys. The scientists on a committee that advised on phthalates did not consider that the evidence of harm was sufficient to warrant a ban, but the Commission retorted that this decision was not one for the scientists, as the conclusion that there is a serious and immediate risk is a responsibility of the commission. This concept is not scientifically defined (from ENDS Environment Daily, Friday 26 November 1999). 

After the WWII he accepted a position as scientific adviser to the Government of Argentina in Buenos Aires. He returned to Germany in 1954 and was Technical Director of the WASAG Chemie AG Company, Essen until his retirement. 

EC SCIENTIFIC ADVISERS FAIL TO STOP BAN ON PHTHALATES EM PVC TOYS... 

An immediate ban on phthalates used in soft PVC toys intended to be chewed or sucked by children under three has been agreed by EC Member State representatives on 1 December. The measure was only adopted following disagreement between the European Commission and its scientific advisers about where the boundary lies between risk assessment and risk management. Details are given of the discussions involved. 

The author is a Principal Research Scientist in Australia s Defence Science and Technology Organisation, and a Principal Fellow/Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne. He was scientific adviser to the Australian delegation of the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva from 1984 until 1992, and since then has been scientific adviser to the Austrahan delegation of the OPCW in The Hague. The views expressed in this chapter are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Australian government. 

The ramifications of the atomic bomb project reached such proportions that in August 1943 it was decided to establish a Combined Policy Committee, composed at the outset of Secretary of War Stimson, Dr. Bush, Dr. Conant for the United States, Field Marshall Sir John Dill and Colonel J.J. Llewellin, for the United Kingdom and Mr. C.D. Howe for Canada. Col. Llewellin was later replaced by Sir Ronald I. Campbell who in turn was succeeded by the Earl of Halifax the late Field Marshal Dill was succeeded by Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson. The United States members have had as their scientific adviser. Dr. Richard C. Tolman the British, Sir James Chadwick and the Canadian, Dean C.J. Mackenzie. 

In larger companies this role has evolved from the medical information service. The scientific adviser is the product or therapy area expert, who is custodian of all the information related to their specialist field. The scientific adviser is a key member on cross-functional teams with commercial and medical colleagues and will work with advertising agencies on the creation of a product s promotional platform. 

In fact, even a segment of the problem—the military problem, for example —is so massive and complex that our best professionals, dealing with their own segments of the military problem, have difficulty in advising the Congress upon the choice of weapons and strategy. It is much too easy an answer to dismiss this conflict among the chiefs of our services and their scientific advisers as service rivalry. 

Reading Science weekly is indispensable to any chemist seriously hunting a job. Despite a focus on recruiting biologists, its help-wanted advertisements complement those in C EN. For example, patent law firms seeking scientific advisers advertise for biologists and chemists in Science. Some pharmaceutical companies place the same chemist-wanted notices in both Science and C EN. 

During World War II he served as technical adviser to the Commandant of the Chemical Warfare Service Development Laboratory at M.I.T. This laboratory, designed for use by the Chemical Engineering Department, served as its quarters from 1946 to 1976. He was appointed Chief Scientific Adviser to the Chief of Research and Development in 1958 and has lived in retirement in Arizona since 1960. His services as a consultant in the fields of petroleum, textiles, paper, and mechanical and electronic equipment were of great value in introducing the realities of the chemical engineering profession into the classroom, thus making his lectures come alive for the students. 

Robinson (the President of the Chemical Society from 1939 to 1941) was insistent that his team of demonstrators and other research workers be kept intact to deal with whatever problems might arise. From the Dyson Perrins Laboratory only T.W.J. Taylor enlisted for military service, becoming, first, a major in the gas-warfare establishment at Porton, and then becoming a scientific adviser to Lord Mountbatten in the Far East. He was joined there by J.D. Lambert from Hinshelwood s department. James Lambert was the son of Bertram, and had succeeded Hinshelwood as the tutor at Trinity College when Hinshelwood was elected to the chair. 

Genetics Institute (23). In December 1980, a company called Genetics Institute was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Two scientists from Harvard, Hark Ptashne and Tom Manlatls, will serve as principal scientific advisers to the company and will also serve on its board of directors. The company has more than 5 million in capital other members of its board of directors Include William Paley of CBS and Benno Schmidt of J. H. Whitney. 

This Statement of Ethical Principles sets a standard to which members of the engineering profession should aspire in their working habits and relationships. The Statement is fully compatible with the principles in the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser s Universal Ethical Code for Scientists, with an emphasis on matters of particular relevance to engineers. The values on which it is based should apply in every situation in which professional engineers exercise their judgement. 

From 1836 to 1865 he was scientific adviser to Trinity House and in 1862 proposed electric lighting for lighthouses. He was awarded a civil pension of 3( 300 per annum in 1835. He also lectured weekly in the Military Academy at Woolwich from 1829. His last experimental paper (1857) was on colloidal gold (see p. 729). In 1857 he was asked to become president of the Royal Society but declined. In 1858 he retired from scientific work and lived in a house at... 

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