Henry Tizard

Sir Henry Thomas Tizard ( born August 23, 1885 in Gillingham, Kent; † October 9, 1959 in Fareham, Hampshire ) was an English chemist, inventor, and Rector of Imperial College London ( 1929-1942 ).

Tizard was also from 1942 to 1946 President of Magdalen College, University of Oxford ( 1942-1946 ). In 1926 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Tizard also dealt before the Second World War with aeronautics and radar and directed 1940 eponymous Commission, which was responsible for the exchange of information including radar and jet drives with the United States. After the Second World War, he led the military research in the UK (Chairman of the Denfesen Research Policy Committee ).

In 1948 he was president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

Works

• Walther Nernst and Henry Thomas Tizard: Theoretical chemistry from the standpoint of Avogadro 's rule & thermodynamics. Macmillan and Co., London 1911 ( Rev. in accor dance 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.