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This book is a real find, it tells the story of a man who was an integral part of Britain's success in 1940 and is also a beacon of the advantages of applying scientific thinking to any field. Well worth reading. Sir Henry Thomas Tizard GCB AFC FRS (23 August 1885 - 9 October 1959) was an English chemist, inventor and Rector of Imperial College, who developed the modern "octane rating" used to classify petrol, helped develop radar in World War II, and led the first serious studies of UFOs. In September 1940, after a top-secret landmark conference with Winston Churchill--at which his opposition to R.V. Jones' view that the Germans had established a system of radio-beam bombing aids (Battle of the Beams) over the UK had been overruled--Tizard led what became known as the Tizard Mission to the United States. This introduced to the US--among other things--the newly invented resonant-cavity magnetron (and other British radar developments), the Whittle gas turbine, and the British Tube Alloys (nuclear weapons) project.[5] In 1946, Tizard remained in the defence establishment, chairing the Defence Research Policy Committee. He also chaired the Advisory Council on Scientific Policy from 1947 to 1952. In 1948, Tizard returned to the Ministry of Defence as Chief Scientific Adviser, a post he held until 1952. The Ministry of Defence's Nick Pope states that: The Ministry of Defence's UFO Project has its roots in a study commissioned in 1950 by the MOD's then Chief Scientific Adviser, the great radar scientist Sir Henry Tizard. As a result of his insistence that UFO sightings should not be dismissed without some form of proper scientific study, the department set up arguably the most marvellously-named committee in the history of the civil service, the Flying Saucer Working Party (FSWP).[6] Tizard had followed the official debate about ghost rockets with interest and was intrigued by the increasing media coverage of UFO sightings in the United Kingdom, America and other parts of the world. Using his authority as Chief Scientific Adviser at the MOD he decided that the subject should not be dismissed without proper, official investigation. Accordingly, he agreed that a small Directorate of Scientific Intelligence/Joint Technical Intelligence Committee (DSI/JTIC) working party should be set up to investigate the phenomenon. This was dubbed the Flying Saucer Working Party. Our Copy is the second 1965 reprint following the same year First edition. Within the boards is a 1988 Guardian Clipping adding further insight to a book which tells of Tizzards life and work. The book retains its dust jacket which is ripped and torn along the spine. The boards are blue with gilt lettering and the spine remains solid. The newspaper article has faded the front board slightly but it does not detract.
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