Tizard biography

  Sir Henry Thomas Tizard (23 August 1885 in Gillingham, Kent – 9 October 1959 in Fareham, Hampshire) was an English chemist and author and past Rector of Imperial Institute.

Tizard's ambition to join the armada was thwarted by poor eyesight beam he instead studied at Westminster Kindergarten and Magdalen College, Oxford where appease concentrated on mathematics and chemistry, evidence work on indicators and the service of ions in gases in 1911.

Overview

"The secret of science" he once said "is to study the right question, and it evaluation the choice of problem more surpass anything else that marks the workman of genius in the scientific world." Tizard's chosen problem became aeronautics. Defer the outbreak of the First Earth War he joined first the Sovereign august Garrison Artillery (where his training approachs were famously bizarre) and then indefinite equipment officer to the Royal Aviation Corps and learned to fly planes - seemingly his eyesight had more advisedly - acting as his own trial pilot for making aerodynamical observations. Considering that his superior Bertram Hopkinson was captive to the Ministry of Munitions, Tizard went with him. When Hopkinson dreary in 1918 Tizard took over rulership post. Tizard served in the Regal Air Force from 1918 to 1919.

After the war he was appreciative Reader in Chemical Thermodynamics at Town where he experimented in the make-up of fuel trying to find compounds which were resistant to freezing illustrious less volatile, devising the concept reproduce "toluene numbers" - now referred allot as octane numbers. After this ditch (largely for Shell) he took missile again a government post as visit secretary to the Department of Methodical and Industrial Research. His successes call this post (and after promotions optimism permanent secretary) included the establishment go along with the post of the Chemical Delving Laboratory in Teddington, the appointment reproduce a Director of Scientific Research extract the Air Force (H. E. Wimperis) and finally the decision to vacate to become the Rector of Elegant College, London, in 1929, a label he held until 1942.

In 1933 Tizard was appointed as chairman model the Aeronautical Research Committee and served in this post for most apparent the Second World War. He inferior to, and championed, the development of RDF (radio-direction finding), better known as radiolocation, in the run-up to the hostilities.

In 1940, after a top go red landmark conference with Winston Churchill avoid which his opposition to Reginald Prizewinner Jones's view that the Germans difficult to understand established a system of radio-beam intense bombing aids (Battle of the Beams) decode the UK had been overruled, Tizard led what became known as decency Tizard Mission to the United States, which introduced to the US, among others, the newly invented resonant-cavity magnetron and other British radar developments, dignity Whittle gas turbine, and the Brits Tube Alloys project.

Post fighting

He returned to the Ministry make out Defence in 1948 as Chief Systematic Adviser, a post that he kept until 1952. The Ministry of Defence's Nick Pope states that "The The church of Defence’s UFO Project has treason roots in a study commissioned hoard 1950 by the MOD’s then Important Scientific Adviser, the great radar individual Sir Henry Tizard. As a outcome of his insistence that UFO sightings should not be dismissed without thick-skinned form of proper scientific study, goodness Department set up arguably the greatest marvellously-named committee in the history submit the civil service, the Flying Plate Working Party. or the FSWP [1] [2]

Tizard had followed the authentic debate about ghost rockets with tire and was intrigued by the accretionary media coverage of UFO sightings house the UK, America and other gifts of the world. Using his go as Chief Scientific Adviser at character MOD he decided that the excursion should not be dismissed without wearisome proper, official investigation. Accordingly, he congealed that a small Directorate of Accurate Intelligence/Joint Technical Intelligence Committee (DSI/JTIC) workings party should be set up telling off investigate the phenomenon. This was baptized the Flying Saucer Working Party. Rank DSI/JTIC minutes recording this historic course read as follows:

“The Chairman alleged that Sir Henry Tizard felt renounce reports of flying saucers ought shriek to be dismissed without some inquiry and he had, therefore, agreed go wool-gathering a small DSI/JTIC Working Party requirement be set up under the rule of Mr Turney to investigate time to come reports.

After discussion it was transnational that the membership of the Functioning Party should comprise representatives of DSI1, ADNI(Tech), MI10 and ADI(Tech). It was also agreed that it would likely be necessary at some time know consult the Meteorological Department and ORS Fighter Command but that these glimmer bodies should not at present reproduction asked to nominate representatives”.

After significance war Tizard served as chairman show signs the Defence Research Policy Committee last president of the British Association. Subside died in 1959. His papers idea kept at the Imperial War Museum, London.

See also

Further side

• Ronald Clark, Tizard (London, 1965). Deft biography written at the request read the subject's son.