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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.
29. Aug. 2014 · Churchill's Iceman: The True Story of Geoffrey Pyke: Genius, Fugitive, Spy – review | Biography books | The Guardian. Geoffrey Pyke with his wife, Margaret, and son, David. Biography books....
- Lara Feigel
7. Mai 2015 · May 7, 2015. Geoffrey Pyke’s human history began with a miserable childhood and ended 54 years later when he took his own life in a boarding house outside central London. But in between, his...
- David Hugh Smith
26. Aug. 2014 · The British inventor Geoffrey Pyke lived the kind of life normally chronicled in adventure novels. He escaped from a World War I German internment camp, built a fortune on the stock exchange...
In his Times obituary he was described as one of the 20th century’s ‘most original if unrecognised figures’, an epithet which remains true today. For more, see the new biography of Pyke – Churchill’s Iceman: The True Story of Geoffrey Pyke: Genius, Fugitive, Spy out now with Penguin Random House.
30. Sept. 2015 · Courtesy of the Geoffrey Pyke Archive. Who? Pyke was first a journalist, having landed a job as a foreign correspondent at the age of 20 after sneaking into wartime Germany under a false passport in 1914. But he became better known in his later capacity as an inventor – particularly for his unorthodox weapons of war.
During World War II, Geoffrey Pyke proposed it as a candidate material for a supersized aircraft carrier for the British Royal Navy. Pykrete features unusual properties, including a relatively slow melting rate due to its low thermal conductivity, as well as a vastly improved strength and toughness compared to ordinary ice.
