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J.G. Crowther

Born

in Halifax, West Yorkshire, The United Kingdom

September 26, 1899

Died

March 23, 1983

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James Gerald Crowther (26 September 1899, Halifax–1983) was one of the founders of science journalism. He was appointed the scientific correspondent of The Manchester Guardian in 1928.

James was the second child of James Crowther, the principal of Halifax Technical School, and his wife, Alice, (née Ainscow), a music teacher. In his youth he knew Ralph Fox who introduced him marxism.

Crowther attended Bradford Grammar School, where he met Ralph Fox who introduced him marxism. He also developed a sufficient interest in mathematics to gain a scholarship to study mathematics and physics at Trinity College, Cambridge. However his arrival there was delayed by the war, as he spent some time with Archibald Hill, applying a scientific approach to anti James Gerald Crowther (26 September 1899, Halifax–1983) was one of the founders of science journalism. He was appointed the scientific correspondent of The Manchester Guardian in 1928.

James was the second child of James Crowther, the principal of Halifax Technical School, and his wife, Alice, (née Ainscow), a music teacher. In his youth he knew Ralph Fox who introduced him marxism.

Crowther attended Bradford Grammar School, where he met Ralph Fox who introduced him marxism. He also developed a sufficient interest in mathematics to gain a scholarship to study mathematics and physics at Trinity College, Cambridge. However his arrival there was delayed by the war, as he spent some time with Archibald Hill, applying a scientific approach to anti-aircraft gunnery. During the time he spent with the Anti-Aircraft Experimental Section of the Munitions Inventions Department he gained experience of scientific research.

When he arrived at Trinity College he became friends with A. L. Rowse.

On 7 March 1923 Albert Inkpin enrolled Crowther in the Communist Party of Great Britain.

In 1924 he married Dora Amy Royle de Bude and then started work for Oxford University Press as a travelling salesman selling technical books. He was thus able to support Dora and her six year old daughter.

He was appointed a commissioning editor for Oxford University Press by Humphrey Sumner Milford. In 1934 he married Franziscka Zarniko who he met in the USSR whilst visiting the Ukrainian Institute of Physics and Technology (UIPT) in 1932. Franziscka, who had ambitions to become a film maker was the German sister of Barbara Ruhemann, a physicist at UIPT, married to Martin Ruhemann. A third sister Jutte had married Kurt Mendelssohn.

Crowther remained in correspondence with the Russian physicist Boris Hessen following his visit to London as part of the Soviet delegation to the Second International Congress of the History of Science. This continued until Hessen's murder in the great purge during 1936.

On retirement he moved to Flamborough Head, Yorkshire. ...more

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