Alcon Copisarow
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Sir Alcon Charles Copisarow (25 June 1920 – 2 August 2017) was a British civil servant and management consultant who was the British government's chief scientific adviser at the Ministry of Technology during the Harold Wilson government.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Copisarow was born at Moss Side, Manchester to Maurice (né Moses)[7] Copisarow (1889–1959) and Eda (née Cohen). Maurice Copisarow was a chemist who worked for the Ministry of Munitions during the First World War and, despite his later blindness (possibly caused by contact with toxic chemicals), continued to produce highly regarded papers on subjects as varied as cancer research and agricultural chemistry. His father, Elkana (later "Conan") Copisarow, was a rabbinical scholar of Biruch, Russia, who settled in Manchester in 1908.[8][9]
Alcon Copisarow was educated at Manchester University, Imperial College London, and the Sorbonne.[10]
