Word: tizard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Sir Henry Thomas Tizard, 74, topflight British scientist who chairmaned the Air Ministry's secret research committee that devised air weapons for World War II, supervised and contributed significantly to the development of radar in time to provide a chain of radar stations for the Battle of Britain, personally carried (1940) the magnetron, heart of radar, to the U.S. where it was quickly put into mass production; in Fareham, England...