Jack Drummond

✶January 12, 1891

†August 5, 1952

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Sir Jack Cecil Drummond FRIC, FRS, known as a child as Jack Cecil Spinks, was a biochemist, noted for his work on nutrition as applied to the British diet under rationing during the Second World War. He was murdered, together with his wife and 10-year-old daughter, in what became known as the Dominici affair, on the night of 4–5 August 1952 near Lurs, a village or commune in the Basses-Alpes department of Southern France.

British biochemist (1891–1952)

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