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).[ 1]
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 .[ 2]
He supplied documents to Whittaker Chambers and J. Peters for Soviet intelligence as early as 1936.[ 1] Witness , Whittaker Chambers refers to Pigman using the pseudonym "Abel Gross".[ 3]
In 1954, he was at the Department of Biochemistry, of the New York Medical College .[ 4]
He died on September 30, 1977, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts from a heart attack .[ 5]
Works
Pigman, William Ward (1972). The Carbohydrates: Chemistry and Biochemistry . Pigman, William Ward (1946). Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry . Pigman, William Ward (1957). The Carbohydrates: Chemistry, Biochemistry, Physiology . Pigman, William Ward. Evaluation of Agents Used in the Prevention of Oral Diseases . Pigman, William Ward (1948). "Chemistry of the Carbohydrates". Annual Review of Biochemistry . 28 : 15– 38. doi :10.1146/annurev.bi.28.070159.000311 . PMID 14432943 .
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References
^ a b John Earl Haynes ; Harvey Klehr (1999). Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America Yale University Press . ISBN 0300129874 ^ p. 49 ^
Whittaker Chambers (1952). Witness . Random House . pp. 29, 385– 386, 414, 419, 422, 425, 429, 442, 745. ISBN 0-89526-571-0
^ Pigman, William Ward (1966). Radiation Research ^ "Dr. W.W. Pigman, A Noted Researcher In Biochemistry, 67" . New York Times . Retrieved 2008-07-01 .
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