Tizard

The group came to be known as the Tizard Committee, named after its leader, Sir Henry Tizard, a chemist who had risen from modest beginnings to attend Oxford and later become rector of the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine.

Allied in the Quest for Radar Henry Petroski 2011

• John Tizard on Suffolk's "virtual" council experiment:

Society daily 05.10.10 Patrick Butler 2010

With "The Tizard Mission" Stephen Phelps hopes to recapture for readers the sense of wonderment that once attended, as the subtitle has it, "The Top-Secret Operation That Changed the Course of World War II."

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Tizard led the mission, which offered the Americans information about self-sealing fuel tanks and jet-propulsion engines.

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But "The Tizard Mission" is more than a history of technology; Mr. Phelps skillfully interweaves other aspects of the story, bringing in warfare, politics, science, engineering and the personalities involved.

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Among the promising ideas pursued by Tizard's committee was one to measure the time that emitted and reflected sound waves took to travel to and return from an object in the sky.

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But unlike the Manhattan Project, which has become an almost reflexive response to any "Jeopardy!" clue linking technology and the war, the Tizard Mission might not occur immediately even to the Watson supercomputer.

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Tizard's mission to the U.S. brought along one of them in the japanned box.

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When it opened, Judith Tizard spent 30 minutes telling us why the change had to be made.

Boing Boing 2008

The website at www. audiovisual.archives.govt.nz was launched by the Minister responsible for Archives New Zealand, Hon Judith Tizard at a function in the Beehive this month to mark 50 years since the passing of the Archives Act 2007.

New: Archives New Zealand’s New Audio Visual Website; Over 100 Historic Films Already Available « ResourceShelf 2007