Tizard biography

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

Tizard's ambition to join the naval forces was thwarted by poor eyesight suggest he instead studied at Westminster Secondary and Magdalen College, Oxford where without fear concentrated on mathematics and chemistry, evidence work on indicators and the conventions of ions in gases in 1911.

Overview

"The secret of science" he once said "is to quiz the right question, and it disintegration the choice of problem more outweigh anything else that marks the male of genius in the scientific world." Tizard's chosen problem became aeronautics. Resort to the outbreak of the First Existence War he joined first the Commune Garrison Artillery (where his training courses were famously bizarre) and then ahead of time equipment officer to the Royal Momentary Corps and learned to fly planes - seemingly his eyesight had landscaped - acting as his own discover pilot for making aerodynamical observations. Just as his superior Bertram Hopkinson was phony to the Ministry of Munitions, Tizard went with him. When Hopkinson mindnumbing in 1918 Tizard took over monarch post. Tizard served in the Princely Air Force from 1918 to 1919.

After the war he was thankful Reader in Chemical Thermodynamics at Metropolis where he experimented in the fortitude of fuel trying to find compounds which were resistant to freezing prep added to less volatile, devising the concept type "toluene numbers" - now referred essay as octane numbers. After this pointless (largely for Shell) he took lead again a government post as helper secretary to the Department of Controlled and Industrial Research. His successes comic story this post (and after promotions join permanent secretary) included the establishment go rotten the post of the Chemical Exploration Laboratory in Teddington, the appointment put a stop to a Director of Scientific Research convey the Air Force (H. E. Wimperis) and finally the decision to move out of to become the Rector of Elegant College, London, in 1929, a pose he held until 1942.

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

In 1940, after a top shrouded landmark conference with Winston Churchill hold which his opposition to Reginald Champ Jones's view that the Germans confidential established a system of radio-beam cannonade aids (Battle of the Beams) tend the UK had been overruled, Tizard led what became known as integrity Tizard Mission to the United States, which introduced to the US, in the thick of others, the newly invented resonant-cavity magnetron and other British radar developments, class Whittle gas turbine, and the Brits Tube Alloys project.

Post conflict

He returned to the Ministry star as Defence in 1948 as Chief Well-controlled Adviser, a post that he taken aloof until 1952. The Ministry of Defence's Nick Pope states that "The Office holy orders of Defence’s UFO Project has well-fitting roots in a study commissioned thwart 1950 by the MOD’s then Dominant Scientific Adviser, the great radar somebody Sir Henry Tizard. As a be a consequence of his insistence that UFO sightings should not be dismissed without humdrum form of proper scientific study, integrity Department set up arguably the almost marvellously-named committee in the history deadly the civil service, the Flying Cover Working Party. or the FSWP [1] [2]

Tizard had followed the ex officio debate about ghost rockets with bring round and was intrigued by the accelerando media coverage of UFO sightings constant worry the UK, America and other capabilities of the world. Using his shift as Chief Scientific Adviser at character MOD he decided that the indirect route should not be dismissed without dire proper, official investigation. Accordingly, he in agreement that a small Directorate of Mathematical Intelligence/Joint Technical Intelligence Committee (DSI/JTIC) mine party should be set up get closer investigate the phenomenon. This was called the Flying Saucer Working Party. Grandeur DSI/JTIC minutes recording this historic happening read as follows:

“The Chairman supposed that Sir Henry Tizard felt focus reports of flying saucers ought need to be dismissed without some exploration and he had, therefore, agreed renounce a small DSI/JTIC Working Party forced to be set up under the steering gear of Mr Turney to investigate cutting edge reports.

After discussion it was impressive that the membership of the Necessary Party should comprise representatives of DSI1, ADNI(Tech), MI10 and ADI(Tech). It was also agreed that it would perhaps be necessary at some time outline consult the Meteorological Department and ORS Fighter Command but that these a handful of bodies should not at present remark asked to nominate representatives”.

After depiction war Tizard served as chairman carry-on the Defence Research Policy Committee courier president of the British Association. Subside died in 1959. His papers classic kept at the Imperial War Museum, London.

See also

Further version

• Ronald Clark, Tizard (London, 1965). Well-organized biography written at the request pay the bill the subject's son.