Chiltern Hills
Chiltern Hills range of chalk hills, c.45 mi (70 km) long and 15 to 20 mi (24-32 km) wide, S England, NW of London, extending NE from Goring Gap. Its highest elevation is Coombe Hill (852 ft/260 m), SE of Aylesbury. Chiltern timber supports the local furniture industry. Roman works have been found in the hills.
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OBITUARY: John Willett
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/17/2002; 497 words
; ...study the cello. His mother, Aimee - daughter of Thomas Tizard FRS, who served on the Challenger expedition of 1872...later Assistant Hydrographer of the Navy; sister of Sir Henry Tizard, wartime adviser to Winston Churchill and chief scientific...
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Scientist Extraordinaire.('Solly Zuckerman: A Scientist Out of the Ordinary' by John Peyton)(Review)
Magazine article from: Queen's Quarterly; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Julian Huxley, grandson of "Darwin's bulldog" Thomas Henry Huxley, was in the audience and introduced himself...Patrick Blackett, Science Adviser at the Admiralty, and Sir Henry Tizard, Chief Scientific Adviser to the Air Staff, did...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/23/1995; 525 words
; ...King of France, 1754; Sir Astley Paston Cooper...novelist, 1869; Sir Henry Thomas Tizard, scientist, 1885; Ernst...executed 1305; Sir Thomas Littleton (Lyttelton...ornithologist, 1813; Philip Henry Gosse, naturalist, 1888...
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Gazette: Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/23/1999; 562 words
; Births: Sir Astley Paston Cooper, surgeon...and novelist, 1869; Sir Henry Thomas Tizard, scientist, 1885; Ernst...patriot, executed 1305; Sir Thomas Littleton (Lyttelton...ornithologist, 1813; Philip Henry Gosse, naturalist, 1888...
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Now and Then
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 3/13/2008; 700+ words
; ...Amateur astronomer Sir William Herschel...of funds. 1994: Sir Peter Harding, Chief...and staff. 1996: Thomas Hamilton shot dead...notably oxygen; 1839 Thomas Tizard, oceanographer...novelist; 1898 Henry Hathaway, film director...
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Sir Henry Thomas Tizard
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sir Henry Thomas Tizard 1885-1959, English physical chemist and scientific adviser. He was...natural science in 1908. During the years from the late 1920s to 1942, Tizard became an outstanding authority on aeronautics and championed the development...
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