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4 unusual facts about William Roy Piggott


William Roy Piggott

In order to collect German scientific results in his field, when he was ordered to dissolve Walter Dieminger´s relevant German organization.

When he came to Austria where the German group had arrived, he decided, despite his orders, to save that group for Britain by transferring it into the British zone of Germany.

Military radio supervision, however, seized his communications and attributed these erroneously to a manoeuvre in the Russian occupation zone.

He edited the still valid official booklet of reduction rules for ionospheric soundings with Karl Rawer and was engaged in international activities during the International Geophysical Year (IGY) and for a long time afterwards.



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