James Crowther

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.[1]

James was the second child of James Crowther, the principal of a technical school, and his wife, Alice, (née Ainscow).[2] He was appointed a commissioning editor for Oxford University Press by Humphrey Sumner Milford.[1] He married Franziscka Zarniko who he met in the USSR.[3]

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.[4]

On retirement he moved to Flamborough Head, Yorkshire.[3]


Works
  • Science in Soviet Russia (1930), reprinted (1936)
  • British Scientists of the Nineteenth Century (1935, London)
  • Famous American Men of Science (1937, London)
  • The Social Relations of Science (1941, New York)
  • Science at War (with R. Whiddington) (1948, New York)
  • Science in Liberated Europe (1949, London)
  • Science in Modern Society (1967, London)

References
  1. Gristock, J (31 December 2013). "J.G. Crowther, Kuhn and systems of mediation: An examination of the science-journalism-innovation relationship". Public Understanding of Science. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  2. Gregory, Jane (2006). "Crowther, James Gerald (1899–1983), science journalist and administrator". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/94975.
  3. Hill-Andrews, Oliver (2015). Interpreting Science (PDF). University of Sussex.
  4. Ienna, Gerardo; Rispoli, Giulia (2019). "Boris Hessen at the Crossroads of Science and Ideology". Society and Politics. 13 (No.1 (25) April 2019): 37–63. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
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