About William Ward Pigman
Lived 1910 – 1977 (aged 67). William Ward Pigman was an American chemist, spy and biochemist.
William Ward Pigman (March 5, 1910 – September 30, 1977) was a chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at New York Medical College, and a suspected Soviet Union spy as part of the "Karl group" for Soviet Military Intelligence (GRU).
Biography He was born on March 5, 1910.
He had a Ph.D. in chemistry. He worked for the National Bureau of Standards and the Labor and Public Welfare Committee. Earlier he had been a professor at the University of Alabama.
He supplied documents to Whittaker Chambers and J. Peters for Soviet intelligence as early as 1936. The Gorsky Memo cites him as "114th".
In 1954, he was at the Department of Biochemistry, of the New York Medical College.
He died on September 30, 1977, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts from a heart attack.
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American chemist and spy (1910-1977)
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William Ward Pigman was born on 5 March 1910.
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William Ward Pigman died on 30 September 1977 in Woods Hole.
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William Ward Pigman was a chemist, spy and biochemist.
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