James Crowther
James Gerald Crowther 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 a technical school, and his wife, Alice,. He was appointed a commissioning editor for Oxford University Press by Humphrey Sumner Milford. He married Franziscka Zarniko who he met in the USSR.
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.Works
