Catalogue description Records of the Office of the Chief Scientific Adviser

Details of Division within CAB
Reference: Division within CAB
Title: Records of the Office of the Chief Scientific Adviser
Description:

Records of the Office of the Chief Scientific Adviser including:

  • records of Sir Solly Zuckerman's office in CAB 168
  • records of Dr Press's office in CAB 178

The CAB 155 series was raised for the records of Sir Alan Cottrell's office, 1971-1974, but these were subsequently destroyed.
Date: 1958- 1981
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Cabinet Office, Office of the Chief Scientific Adviser, 1964-
Physical description: 3 series
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Administrative / biographical background:

The post of Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government and Head of the Scientific Civil Service was created by the incoming Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson in 1964. The first incumbent was Sir Solly Zuckerman, up to that time Chief Scientific Adviser to the Secretary of State for Defence. In 1966 he moved full time to the Cabinet Office.

Robert Press was transferred from the Ministry of Defence, as a nuclear specialist, with Sir Solly, and on the latter's retirement became responsible for nuclear advisory and coordination work reporting directly to the Secretary of the Cabinet.

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