hoax and eminent disagreements, at 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 the impacts of their work and avoid damaging the world, particularly the natural environment. Awards and honours 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 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. Family life Zuckerman met his future wife, Lady Joan Rufus 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 a letter written to his wife Joan in 1993, shortly after Zuckerman died in London following a heart attack, aged 88: Arms References External links Biography "Solly Zuckerman, Polymath, Dies", The New York Times'', 2 April 1993 Zuckerman Archive, University of East Anglia "Solly Zuckerman: The last evangelist of the enlightenment" 1904 births 1993 deaths British anatomists British Jews 20th-century British zoologists Fellows of the Royal Society Presidents of the Zoological Society of London University of Cape Town alumni Alumni of University College London Academics of the University of East Anglia Alumni of South African College Schools Life peers Conservative Party (UK) life peers Members of the Order of Merit Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath Fellows of the Zoological Society of London Secretaries of the Zoological Society of London Jewish scientists Chief Scientific Advisers to HM Government Chief Scientific Advisers to the Ministry of Defence Academics of the University of Birmingham Jewish British politicians