Geoffrey Pyke

Geoffrey Pyke
Born
Geoffrey Nathaniel Joseph Pyke

(1893-11-09)9 November 1893
Died21 February 1948(1948-02-21) (aged 54)
Hampstead, London, U.K.
Occupation(s)Journalist, educationalist and inventor
SpouseMargaret Amy Chubb
Known forPykrete, Project Habakkuk
Scientific career
FieldsMilitary technology
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Geoffrey Nathaniel Joseph Pyke (9 November 1893 – 21 February 1948)[1] 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.[2]

During the Second World War, Pyke proposed the newly invented material, pykrete, for the construction of the ship Habakkuk.[3]

  1. ^ Hemming 2014.
  2. ^ Pyke 2002, passim.
  3. ^ Morris, Peter JT (2004). "Pyke, Geoffrey Nathaniel Joseph (1893–1948)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (revised ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/92810. Retrieved 7 September 2009. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)