James Crowther

James Gerald Crowther (26 September 1899, Halifax – 30 March 1983) was one of the founders of science journalism. He was appointed the scientific correspondent of The Manchester Guardian in 1928.

Life and writings James was the second child of James Crowther, the principal of Halifax Technical School, and his wife, Alice, (née Ainscow), a music teacher.

Crowther attended Bradford Grammar School, where he met Ralph Fox who introduced him to Marxism.

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.

On retirement he moved to Flamborough Head, Yorkshire. The ABC of Chemistry (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1932) Osiris and the Atom (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1932) Industry and Education in Soviet Russia (London: William Heinemann, 1932) British Scientists of the Nineteenth Century (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1935) Famous American Men of Science (London: Secker & Warburg, 1937) The Social Relations of Science (London and New York: Macmillan, 1941) Science at War (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1948). Joint author: Richard Whiddington. Science in Liberated Europe (London: Pilot Press, 1949) Six Great Inventors (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1954; The "Six Great" series) Radioastronomy and Radar (London: Methuen & Co., 1958; Methuen's Outlines series) Six Great Astronomers: Tycho Brahe, Kepler, Halley, Herschel, Russell, Eddington (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1961; The "Six Great" series) Science in Modern Society (New York: Schocken Books, 1968)