Henry Tizard

Sir Henry Thomas Tizard (August 23rd, 1885 with Gillingham, Kent — October 9th, 1959 with Fareham, Hampshire) was a inventive Chimiste and English, as well as the vice-chancellor of the Imperial College.

Its ambition to join the navy is opposed by a bad sight, and, in the place, it makes studies at the School of Westminster and Magdalen College of Oxford, where it concentrates on the Mathématiques and the Chimie, and where it carries out work on the indicators and the movements of the ions in gases in 1911.

The First World War

“ The secrecy of the science ” , says it one day, “ is to raise the good question, and it is the choice of the problem, more than anything else, which marks the man of genius in science. ” the problem which it chooses is that of aeronautics. With the declaration of the First World War, it joined initially artillery of the Royal Garrison (where its methods of drive are re-elected for their bizarrery), then it becomes officer for the experimental equipment of aviation, and learns how to control -- apparently its sight improved - - being made its own test pilot for his aerodynamic observations. When its superior Bertram Hopkinson is transferred to the Ministry for the Ammunition, Tizard accompanies it. When Hopkinson dies in 1918, Tizard takes its station. It is used in aviation of 1918 for 1919.

After the war, it is named Lecteur in chemical Thermodynamics in Oxford, where it makes experiments on the composition of the fuels, in order to find compounds frost-resistant, and less volatile, inventing the concept of “ index of toluène ”, which one now calls the number octane. After this work (largely for Shell), it resumes work for the government, as secretary attending the Department of Scientific research and industrial. Its successes at this station (after a promotion of permanent secretary) include/understand the creation of the Research laboratory chemical of Teddington, the nomination of a director of the scientific research of the air force (H.E. Wimperis), and finally, the decision to leave to become vice-chancellor of the Imperial College, in London, in 1929, station which it kept until 1942.

The second world war

In 1933, Tizard is named president of the aeronautical Commission of research, and occupies this station during most of the Second world war. It suveille the development of the RDF, better known under the name of Radar, and is made the defender of it during the rise of the war.

In 1940, it has a top secret maintenance with Winston Churchill, which draws aside its opposition to the point of view of Reginald Victor Jones, according to which the Germans developed an assistance system by beams of radio operator waves to the bombardment of Great Britain (,). It organizes then what will be known under the name of Mission Tizard in the United States, where it reveals with the Americans, inter alia, the cavity resonator recently invented (Magnétron) and other British developments on the Radar, the gas turbine of Whittle, and the British project Tube Alloys.

Post-war period

It turns over to the Ministry for Defense in 1948 like Conseiller scientific as a chief, station which it will keep until 1952. , of the Ministry for Defense, affirms that “ The project UFO of the Ministry for Defense then has its sources in a study launched in 1950 by the large scientist of the radars Sir Henry Tizard, Conseiller scientific as a chief of the Ministry. Following its insistence on the fact that detections of UFO cannot be neglected without some form of scientific study, the department sets up the commission at the most marvellous name which existed in the function publique : the " work group of the saucers volantes" ”

Tizard had followed with interest the official debate on the phantom rockets and was intrigued by the increasing cover in the media of detections of UFO in the United Kingdom, the United States and other parts of the world. Under its authority of Advising scientific as a chief of the Ministry for Defense, it decided that this subject was not to be neglected without a rational official research. He thus granted so that an small group of work of the joint commission of the Technical Information of the direction of the scientific Information (DSI/JTIC) is set up to study the phenomenon. This group was indeed set up under the nickname of " work group of the saucers volantes". The reports of the DSI/JTIC on this historical development are the suivants :

“ The president says that Sir Henry Tizard thinks that the reports/ratios on the flying saucers cannot be neglected without some research, and it thus gave its agreement so that an small group of the DSI/JTIC is set up with in the chair Mr. Turney to examine the future observations.

After discussion it is decided that the work group must include/understand representatives of DSI1, ADNI (Tech), MI10 and ADI (Tech). It is as decided as it will probably be necessary to consult at a certain time the department of meteorology and the operational research department of the command of the bombers of the RAF, but that these two bodies do not need to name representatives as of maintenant. ”

After the war, Tizard has also the positions of president of the commission of policy of search for defense, as well as British Association for the advance of science. He dies in 1959. Its files are deposited with the Imperial Museum of the War in London.

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