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25-619: The Society's aims are: According to the Association of Medical Research charities, in 2015 the Society spent £1,605,456 on charitable activities, with £998,776 directly funding health research in the UK. The Society for Endocrinology was officially formed in 1946. John Folley FRS was elected as the Society’s first Secretary, Cliff Emmens was elected Treasurer, and Lord Zuckerman was made Honorary Editor of

50-470: A letter written to his wife Joan in 1993, shortly after Zuckerman died in London following a heart attack , aged 88: 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

75-648: A member of a Royal Commission investigating environmental pollution from 26 February 1970. In 1951 Zuckerman published his paper summarizing the existing data both for and against the possibility of postnatal oogenesis . He taught at the University of East Anglia from 1969 to 1974, where he was involved in setting up a school of environmental sciences. He served as Secretary of the London Zoological Society from 1955 to 1977 and as its president from 1977 to 1984. Some of Zuckerman's achievements include being

100-566: A pioneer in the study of primate behaviour. 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 . He is also credited for making science a normal part of government policy in the Western world and wrote many articles on this topic, including some formal lectures, collected in Beyond

125-533: Is usually equivalent to the rank of captain in the navy and of the rank of colonel in other services. The equivalent rank in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force , Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force , Women's Royal Air Force (until 1968) and Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service (until 1980) was "group officer". The rank was used in the Royal Canadian Air Force until the 1968 unification of

150-460: Is worn on both the lower sleeves of the tunic or on the shoulders of the flying suit or the casual uniform. Group captains are the first rank in the RAF hierarchy to wear gold braid on the peak of their cap, informally known as ' scrambled egg '; however, they still wear the standard RAF officer's cap badge. The command pennant for a group captain is similar to the one for a wing commander except that there

175-441: The London Zoological Society in 1928, and worked as a research anatomist until 1932. In this period he founded the intellectual dining club, Tots and Quots . He denied, as early as 1928, that Australopithecus was a genealogical link between apes and humans and maintained this belief throughout his career. In 1932, Zuckerman published his most noteworthy pre-war work, Social Life of Monkeys and Apes . Zuckerman taught at

200-666: 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 railheads back from the front causing trucks to be diverted from a role of manoeuvre to one of logistics, which resulted in greater petrol consumption. After

225-619: The University of Oxford from 1934 to 1945, during which time he was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society . During the Second World War, Zuckerman worked on several research projects for the British government, including the design of a civilian defence helmet (colloquially known as the Zuckerman helmet ) and measuring the effect of bombing on people and buildings and an assessment of

250-521: The Canadian Forces , when army-type rank titles were adopted. Canadian group captains then became colonels . In official Canadian French usage, the rank title was colonel d'aviation . On 1 April 1918, the newly created RAF adopted its officer rank titles from the British Army , with Royal Naval Air Service captains and Royal Flying Corps colonels becoming colonels in the RAF. In response to

275-485: The Ivory Tower . There Zuckerman wrote about the role of science in policy, and how it developed in public (i.e. large funded collaborations) and in private (i.e. behind closed doors in laboratories). He was concerned that the public should understand the contested and serendipitous process of scientific discovery, in contrast to the discovery accounts which were popular, illustrating with hoax and eminent disagreements, at

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300-602: The Society by providing services to third parties. The Society for Endocrinology has the following official journals: The Society also publishes a quarterly magazine, The Endocrinologist . The Society for Endocrinology organises a variety of conferences and training events. Its flagship event is the annual Society for Endocrinology BES conference, which draws an international delegation of scientists, clinicians, nurses and trainee endocrinologists. Lord Zuckerman Solomon " Solly " Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman OM KCB FRS (30 May 1904 – 1 April 1993)

325-485: The Society's Proceedings. Writing in the Journal of Endocrinology , Zuckerman explained that he actually conceived of creating a Society for Endocrinology with his colleagues, Sir Charles Dodds , Sir Frank Young , and Sir Alan Parkes as early as 1937, but the creation of the Society was postponed due to the outbreak of World War II. In 1996, the Society established a commercial subsidiary, Bioscientifica , to raise funds for

350-576: The bombardment ( Operation Corkscrew ) of the Italian island of Pantelleria in 1943. He was thus one of the pioneers of the science of operational research . 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

375-486: The frontiers of science, because ultimately science ought to serve the public. This led to a concern about the policy for investing in science, or Foresight , which could not, in his view, expect to know what scientific discovery was likely to occur, and therefore how to choose projects for funding. He also advanced the case for engineers and other scientists to adopt an oath, similar to the Hippocratic Oath , to consider

400-690: The impacts of their work and avoid damaging the world, particularly the natural environment. Zuckerman was knighted in the 1956 New Year Honours , promoted Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1964 New Year Honours , elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1965, appointed to the Order of Merit on 23 April 1968, elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1970, and

425-507: The mid-1920s they were usually commanded by an air officer . In the post-World War II period the commander of an RAF flying station or a major ground training station has typically been a group captain. More recently, expeditionary air wings have also been commanded by group captains. The rank insignia is based on the four gold bands of captains in the Royal Navy, comprising four narrow light blue bands over slightly wider black bands. This

450-508: The names of all the important people he was seeing, when he was far more unusual and far brainier than any of them. Group captain Group captain ( Gp Capt or G/C ) is a senior officer rank used by some air forces, with origins from the Royal Air Force . The rank is used by air forces of many countries that have historical British influence . Group captain is immediately senior to wing commander and immediately below air commodore . It

475-593: The proposal that the RAF should use its own rank titles, it was suggested that the RAF might use the Royal Navy 's officer ranks, with the word "air" inserted before the naval rank title. For example, the rank that later became group captain would have been "air captain". Although the Admiralty objected to this simple modification of their rank titles, it was agreed that the RAF might base many of its officer rank titles on naval officer ranks with differing pre-modifying terms. It

500-565: The second child and eldest son of Moses and Rebecca Zuckerman (née Glaser). Both his parents were the children of Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire . He was educated at the South African College School . After studying medicine at the University of Cape Town and later attending Yale University , he went to London in 1926 to complete his studies at University College Hospital Medical School . He began his career at

525-574: The war, Zuckerman 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, and was then Professor of Anatomy at the University of Birmingham until 1968, chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defence from 1960 to 1966, and the first chief scientific adviser to the British Government from 1964 to 1971. He was also

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550-644: Was Scientific Director of the British Bombing Survey Unit (BBSU), 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

575-607: Was a British public servant , zoologist and operational research pioneer. He is best remembered as a scientific advisor to the Allies on bombing strategy in the Second World War , for his work to advance the cause of nuclear non-proliferation, and for his role in bringing attention to global economic issues. Solomon Zuckerman was born in Cape Town in the British Cape Colony (modern-day South Africa) on 30 May 1904,

600-523: Was also suggested that RAF colonels might be entitled "bannerets" or "leaders". However, the rank title based on the Navy rank was preferred and as RAF colonels typically commanded groups the rank title group captain was chosen. The rank of group captain was introduced in August 1919 and has been used continuously since then. Although in the early years of the RAF groups were normally commanded by group captains, by

625-676: Was awarded a life peerage on 5 April 1971, taking the title Baron Zuckerman of Burnham Thorpe in the County of Norfolk . He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1943 . Zuckerman met his future wife, Lady Joan Isaacs , daughter of Gerald Isaacs, 2nd Marquess of Reading , in Oxford . They married in 1939 and had two children, a son, Paul, and a daughter, Stella. Stella Zuckerman died in 1992, predeceasing her parents. Joan, Lady Zuckerman entertained and did landscapes using pastels. She died in 2000. Martha Gellhorn described Zuckerman in

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