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. James was the second child of James Crowther, the principal of a technical school, and his wife, Alice, (née Ainscow). He was appointed a commissioning editor for Oxford University Press by Humphrey Sumner Milford. 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.