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EVEN in peace-time, there is a constant but subdued lamentation on the part of scientific men that their subject receives but scant consideration by politicians and others controlling public affairs in formulating and executing public policy. In wartime such lamentation is less subdued. When, therefore, a great public figure has used the weapon offered by science to the great benefit of the State, it is only right that his death should call for more than a passing reference. Viscount d'Abernon, whose death at the age of eighty-four occurred on November 1, was a man who, without any special training in science, came to have a great belief in the part it might play in government. He was a man of remarkably wide interests and achievements, a statesman but not a politician, and a man of the highest culture, who knew, or wished to know, the best that had been thought and said in the world. He had also the keenest appreciation of art, especially of painting and the drama. Nothing human was foreign to him.
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MELLANBY, E. Viscount D'Abernon, P.C., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., F.R.S.. Nature 149, 43–44 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149043a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/149043a0