Pyke, Geoffrey
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Name (Latin)
Pyke, Geoffrey
Date of birth
1893-11-09
Date of death
1948-02-22
Associated country
Great Britain
Occupation
Educators
Inventors
Journalists
Gender
male
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MARC
Sources of Information
- To Ruhleben--and back, 2002:t.p. (Geoffrey Pyke)
- ODNB, 16 Oct. 2008(Pyke, Geoffrey Nathaniel Joseph (1893--1948), educationist and inventor)
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Wikipedia description:
Geoffrey Nathaniel Joseph Pyke (9 November 1893 – 21 February 1948) was an English journalist, educationalist, and inventor. Pyke came to public attention when he escaped from internment in Germany during World War I. He had travelled to Germany under a false passport, and was soon arrested and interned. During the Second World War, Pyke proposed the newly invented material, pykrete, for the construction of the ship Habakkuk.
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