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]
William Ward Pigman | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 5, 1910 |
| Died | September 30, 1977 (aged 67) |
| Occupation | Chemist |
| Employer | New York Medical College |
Biography
editHe 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] In his book, Witness, Whittaker Chambers refers to Pigman using the pseudonym "Abel Gross".[3] The Gorsky Memo cites him as "114th".
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
edit- 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.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ 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. October 1, 1977. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
Further reading
edit- Alexander Vassiliev (2003), Alexander Vassiliev's Notes on Anatoly Gorsky's December 1948 Memo on Compromised American Sources and Networks, retrieved 2012-04-21
- Allen Weinstein, Perjury: The Hiss–Chambers Case (New York: Random House, 1997).