Government & military · Science
Henry Tizard
Air-defence research committee chair
Historical portrait · Image credit
Who they are
Henry Tizard chaired the British air-defence committee that received Robert Watson-Watt and Arnold Wilkins’s 1935 proposal for detecting aircraft by radio. His role here concerns the organization and support of research: the experiment and technical report are credited to Watson-Watt and Wilkins. The episode links laboratory radio work to a developing national detection system.
He represents the institutional sponsorship behind early British radar development.
Selected contributions
- Chaired the committee to which The Detection of Aircraft by Radio Methods was presented in February 1935.Source ↗
In the timeline
Biography sources & portrait credit
- Sir Robert Watson-Watt ↗National Physical Laboratory
Portrait credit
Bernard Hailstone. Public domain (expired Crown copyright). Via Wikimedia Commons.
Historical portrait. Cropped to 4:5, resized to 320 × 400 and converted to WebP.
Image source & identification ↗ · Public domain (expired Crown copyright) ↗
