Adam Gowans Whyte

Adam Gowans Whyte (1 August 1875 – 31 July 1950) was a Scottish journalist, author, and translator. He was a well-known scientific journalist and regular contributor to the freethought press, and was a founder of the Rationalist Press Association.

Life Adam Gowans Whyte was born in Scotland in 1875, the seventh of nine children. Whyte was cremated on 3 August 1950 at Golders Green Crematorium, where the secular service was led by C. Bradlaugh Bonner.

Selected bibliography

Electricity in Locomotion, an account of its mechanism, its achievements and its prospects (1911) The Religion of the Open Mind (1913) The Natural History of Evil (1920) Stanley Baldwin: a biographical character study (1926) Forty years of electrical progress; the story of the G.E.C. (1930) Anthology of Errors (1940) The Danger of Being an Atheist (1940) Why Worry about Religion? A question for the new generation (1946) The story of the R.P.A., 1899-1949 (1949) The Ladder of Life: from molecule to mind (1951)