Henry Tizard

Sir Henry Thomas Tizard (born August 23, 1885 in Gillingham , Kent , † October 9, 1959 in Fareham , Hampshire ) was an English chemist and inventor.

Life

He was Rector of Imperial College London from 1929 to 1942 . Tizard was also from 1942 to 1946 President of Magdalen College of the University of Oxford . Tizard dealt with aeronautics and radar technology even before the Second World War and in 1940 headed a commission named after him, which was responsible for the exchange of information, for example about radar and jet engines with the USA. After World War II, he headed the UK's military research as chairman of the Defense Research Policy Committee.

In 1926 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1937 knighted as Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath . In 1948 he was President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1949 he was raised to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.

Works

• Walther Nernst and Henry Thomas Tizard: Theoretical chemistry from the standpoint of Avogadro's rule & thermodynamics . Macmillan and Co., London 1911 (Rev. in accordance with the 6th German ed.).
• Methods of measuring aircraft performances . Aeronautical Society of Great Britain, London 1917.
• The passing world: science and social progress . Bureau of Current Affairs, London 1948.
• Scientist in and out of the Civil Service. The twenty-second Haldane Memorial lecture delivered at Birkbeck College, London, 9th March 1955 . printed for Birkbeck College, London, by WJ Ruddock and Sons, London 1955.

literature

• Ronald W. Clark : Tizard . Methuen, London 1965.
• David Zimmerman: Top Secret Exchange. The Tizard Mission and the Scientific War . Sutton Publishing, Montreal 1996, ISBN 0750912421 .

Web links

• Imperial College London: Henry Tizard
• Newspaper article about Henry Tizard in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Knights and Dames at Leigh Rayment's Peerage