McGill University, Montreal University College London
Spouse
Dorothea Vaughan
(m. 1937; died 1986)
Children
2
Scientific career
Fields
Nutritionist
Magnus Alfred PykeOBE FRSE FRIC (29 December 1908 – 19 October 1992) was an English nutritional scientist, governmental scientific adviser, writer and presenter. He worked for the UK Ministry of Food, the post-war Allied Commission for Austria, and different food manufacturers. He wrote prolifically and became famous as a TV and radio personality, and was featured on Thomas Dolby's 1982 synth-pop hit, "She Blinded Me with Science".
Magnus Alfred Pyke OBE FRSE FRIC (29 December 1908 – 19 October 1992) was an English nutritional scientist, governmental scientific adviser, writer and...
barrister MagnusPyke (1908–1992), British scientist and media personality Margaret Pyke (1893–1966), campaigner for family planning Mike Pyke (born 1984)...
song features exclamations from the British scientist and TV presenter MagnusPyke, who repeatedly interjects "Science!" and delivers other lines in a deliberately...
Geoffrey Nathaniel Joseph Pyke (9 November 1893 – 21 February 1948) was an English journalist, educationalist, and inventor. Pyke came to public attention...
backing vocals (track 5) John Marsh – shipping forecast (track 3) Dr. MagnusPyke – voice over Technical Thomas Dolby – producer (tracks 1–5) Tim Friese-Greene...
Brian Clough – football manager Robin Day – BBC political interviewer MagnusPyke – TV science presenter Alf Garnett – Warren Mitchell's character from...
88 (5): 754–758, Bibcode:2004SciEd..88..754W, doi:10.1002/sce.20007 MagnusPyke (1962), The Science Myth, Macmillan E. A. Bayne (1969), The Social Reality...
such as Don't Ask Me along with other scientific personalities such as MagnusPyke, Miriam Stoppard, and Rob Buckman. He wrote, appeared in, or presented...
chef Eugene Kaufeler, actor and gourmet Robert Morley, nutritionist MagnusPyke and many other experts Troake admired to advise her. The result brought...
Moke. His credits also include working with the eccentric scientist MagnusPyke and he was Alan Whicker's producer on Whicker's Women in 1972. He worked...
April 1987 4 Alan Coren Mary Parkinson Kenneth Williams Lynsey de Paul MagnusPyke 24 April 1987 5 Chris Tarrant Nina Myskow Lord Lichfield Bryan Robson...
elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were MagnusPyke, Andrew Phillipson, Sir David Cuthbertson and John Andrew Crichton. He...
Joseph Pyke, warden of the Central Synagogue, London, father of Geoffrey Pyke, an inventor and uncle of scientist and TV personality MagnusPyke. Pyke was...
October – Gerald Ellison, former Bishop of London (born 1910) 19 October – MagnusPyke, scientist and television presenter (born 1908) 20 October – Stanley...
theme tune for the 1970s ITV television show Don't Ask Me (presented by MagnusPyke). It was also used as theme for the Steve Coogan comedy series Saxondale...
Nethersole-Thompson (1908–1989); renowned British ornithologist, naturalist and author MagnusPyke (1908–1992); author, scientist Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997); political philosopher...
Lamothe, 72, Canadian musician. Maurice Le Roux, 69, French composer. MagnusPyke, 83, English nutritional scientist and television presenter. Wulf Schmidt...
1908 – Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologian and author (d. 1993) 1908 – MagnusPyke, English scientist and author (d. 1992) 1910 – Ronald Coase, English-American...
(track 6) Andy Partridge – harmonica (track 4), percussion ("Urges") Dr. MagnusPyke – voiceovers ("She Blinded Me With Science") Matthew Seligman – Moog...
Eduard Punset, politician, lawyer, economist, and science popularizer MagnusPyke, food scientist, broadcaster, and author V. S. Ramachandran, neuroscientist...
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