Geoffrey Pyke

Educationalist, Inventor

1893 – 1948

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Who was Geoffrey Pyke?

Geoffrey Nathaniel Joseph Pyke was an English journalist, educationalist, and later an inventor whose clever, but unorthodox, ideas could be difficult to implement. In lifestyle and appearance, he fitted the common stereotype of a scientist-engineer-inventor or in British slang, a "boffin".

Pyke is particularly known for his innovative proposals for weapons of war, most especially the material pykrete and the proposed construction of the ship Habakkuk from it.

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Born
Nov 9, 1893
Also known as
  • Geoffrey Nathaniel Pyke
Spouses
Ethnicity
  • Jewish people
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Profession
Education
  • University of Cambridge
Died
Feb 22, 1948

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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