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Monday, June 9, 2014

Kerry McGregor, British singer and reality contestant (The X Factor), died from bladder cancer she was 37.

Kerry McGregor was a Scottish singer-songwriter and actress from West Lothian died from bladder cancer she was 37..[2] McGregor climbed to national fame after appearing on the third UK series of The X Factor, where she was mentored by Sharon Osbourne.[3] McGregor died on 4 January 2012 of complications from bladder cancer, a disease she had suffered from for years.

(30 October 1974[1] – 4 January 2012)

Career

After studying music and drama at Jewel and Esk Valley College, Edinburgh, she co-formed the dance band Nexus in 1993. She then joined QFX, whose album Freedom reached Number 21 in the UK charts.[4]
Talent spotted by Kenny MacDonald, manager of The Proclaimers,[4] in 1997 McGregor participated in The Great British Song Contest, the UK selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, with the song "Yodel in the Canyon of Love". The song came second, behind Katrina and the Waves' "Love Shine a Light", which went on to win the competition that year.[3] Polygram later signed McGregor to a solo deal, and released "Yodel in the Canyon of Love" as a single.
McGregor had appeared in a number of stage and television shows including the Channel 4 comedy The Book Group playing Kenny's love-interest Carol Ann,[5] and the BBC1 Children's drama series Grange Hill.[6]
In 2006, McGregor was a finalist in the third UK series of TV talent show The X Factor.[7][8] McGregor was mentored on the show by Sharon Osbourne.[3] She was eliminated in the third week of the live shows along with Dionne Mitchell.
McGregor appeared at sell-out summer shows in Blackpool in 2007 and performed for the National Lottery Live, before taking a break to concentrate on her song-writing. In 2008, she recorded and toured with singer-songwriter Jay Brown appearing on his album, "Take What You Need" and worked with producer and musician Calais Brown. McGregor also performed at the 2010 Edinburgh International Festival, singing in concert with classical Tenor, Martin Aelred.
In 2011, McGregor was appointed Ambassador to UK charity, Action on Bladder Cancer (ABC).

Personal life

McGregor was born in 1974 in Pumpherston, West Lothian, Scotland.[9] Her grandfather was Bobby McKerracher, known as "the Scottish Bing Crosby". After her father died in a car crash when she was aged five, she was raised by her mother, who was also a talented singer.[4]
Joining West Calder High School, McGregor showed promise as a gymnast until aged 13, when she fell out of a tree and broke her back. Thereafter she was a wheelchair user, but in six weeks she learnt to walk again using crutches, earning a Child of Achievement Award.[4]
McGregor lived in West Lothian near Edinburgh, with her property developer partner and their son Joshua.[4] In 2007, McGregor helped to launch the WheelieChix-Chic clothing brand at London Fashion Week.[10] McGregor was involved with a number of charities that work with and for women, children and the disabled.

Death

After two years of complaining of stomach pains, in September 2010 McGregor was diagnosed with bladder cancer. After undergoing three months of chemotherapy, she revealed her diagnosis in an interview with The Sun in April 2011.[11] On 4 January 2012 it was announced by McGregor's management on her Facebook page that she had died earlier that day from the disease.[2][3][4][6] 400 people attended her funeral.[12]

Discography

Singles

Year Title UK Chart Position Album
1997 "Yodel in the Canyon of Love" — Eurovision 1997
1997 "Freedom" (as part of the band QFX) #21 Freedom



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Patricia Mather, Australian zoologist, died she was 88.

Patricia Mather (née Kott) was an Australian zoologist known for her research into sea squirts died she was 88.. [1]She was born and educated in Western Australia.[2]

(12 December 1925 – 4 January 2012) 


She became a leader in Australian marine science and internationally achieved status through her work on the taxonomy of the Ascidiacea. She has published (under her maiden name, Patricia Kott) more than 150 papers including her major monograph on the "Australian Ascidiacea" (in four parts between 1985 and 2001).

Partial listing of publications

  • Kott, P. 1985: The Australian Ascidiacea Part I, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 23: 1–438.



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Gatewood Galbraith, American lawyer and author, died from complications from chronic emphysema, he was 64.

Louis Gatewood Galbraith  was an American author and a constitutional attorney from the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky  died from complications from chronic emphysema, he was 64.. He was a five-time political candidate for governor of Kentucky.

(January 23, 1947 – January 4, 2012)

Early life, education, and law career

Born in Carlisle, Kentucky[1] to Henry Clay and Dollie Galbraith, on January 23, 1947. Gatewood was the fourth of seven children. He graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1974 and from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 1977. Galbraith's law practice focused on criminal law and personal injury civil actions.[1] According to his [2] Linkedin resume, he specialized in the difficult ones, and his interest included the preservation of the Constitution and justice for all.
[3] Speaking of difficult ones. It should be noted that during his career, beginning in around June of 1997, he spent nearly 6 yrs driving back and forth, from Lexington Ky. where he resided to Bowling Green, Ky. where practicing as a pro bono attorney in the first felony medical marijuana defense case of advocate, minister and patent Mary L. Thomas aka Rev. Mary Thomas-Spears Indictment # 97-CR-517. Charged originally with 6 Felonies for Trafficking in a Controlled Substance = Marijuana. A case which made U.S. legal history in a marijuana trafficking cases before the Kentucky Courts and the Honorable Judge John D. Minton, Jr. {then known as "hang them high Minton"} in 2001/2002. When Judge Minton granted a "Stay" in the case, after the appeal in the case had been denied by the Commonwealth Court of Appeals in 2001. [4] Shortly after which, A Review of Tax Law Changes predicted Enacted the Marijuana Tax Stamp by the 2003 General Assembly. John D. Minton, Jr. then was later elected to the Commonwealth Court of Appeals and then moved up to the Supreme Court and in March 3, 2011 Governor Steve Beshear's Communications Office Gov. released "Beshear signs landmark corrections reform bill into law" which decriminalizes personal use of up to 8 oz's of marijuana to a ticket-able offense.
[5]Press Release Date: Thursday, March 03, 2011 " I’m pleased we’re making progress in tackling the problems facing our penal code,” Chief Justice of Kentucky John D. Minton Jr. said. “With all three branches involved in this deliberative process, I’m confident that the outcome will be positive for Kentucky.”
[6]During this time, Gatewood Galbraith represented Richard J. Rawlings, former President of, many years and an official Board Member of the U.S. Marijuana Party pro bono in 2011 in Barren County, Kentucky at the Barren County Courthouse. Where Rawlings faced felony marijuana cultivation, possession, and paraphernalia charge's stemming from a raid on his girlfriend's Sheree Krider's property in Cave City. Sheree former Vice President of the U.S. Marijuana Party and a Board Member herself. A case that on Nov. 21st, 2011 ended with a [7]Plea Bargain where Felony charges were dropped and Richard Rawlings agreed to time served, court cost and 4 weekends to serve. One weekend for each plant that didn't have a tax stamp.
A quote by Richard J. Rawlings from his Facebook status updates about this case. "I've came back wounded, but not beat. They agreed with a deal that Gatewood Galbraith went to them with. They dropped the felony cultivation to a misdemeanor and I would do 30 days in Jail. After talking to Gatewood he went back in and did some more talking. After a few minutes in the courtroom he came back out and said the final offer, 4 weekends in jail, and no drug testing. I hate to make deals but this was one I just could not fight without taking a chance of getting Sheree Krider thrown in jail or losing her property. I want to Say Thanks to Mary, Diverse Sanctuary for her support and all the help she has been. She will have some pics and video up in the next day or two. And a Big Thanks to Gatewood, Again!!!" In which he also refers to or connects advocate, minister and patient, Mary L. Thomas-Spears founder of Diverse Sanctuary Community Ministries, whom Gatewood had also represented.
There are those who believe this is evidence that Gatewood Galbraith was successful indeed and is just one reason he was called a "Hero of the people" by many.
Galbraith died of natural causes, though "complications from chronic emphysema" were noted.[8] on January 4, 2012[9] leaving behind three daughters.
[10]Governor Steve Beshear: "Jane and I were shocked and saddened to learn of Gatewood's passing, Galbraith was a gutsy, articulate and passionate advocate who never shied away from a challenge or potential controversy. His runs for office prove he was willing to do more than just argue about the best direction for the state — he was willing to serve, and was keenly interested in discussing issues directly with our citizens. He will be missed."
[11]Sen. Mitch McConnell: "I am saddened to hear of the passing of Gatewood Galbraith. He was a truly memorable character who loved our state and its people."
[12]NORML remembers Gatewood
[13]Take Back Kentucky a grassroots political organization founded by a long time good friend, Norm Davis remembers Gatewood.
[14]Jan. 5, 2012, Kentucky remembers Gatewood as an Iconic political figure in history.
[15]NPR remembers Gatewood as a Colorful Kentucky Politician.
[16]His good friend Willie Nelson remembers him with a tribute ~ "Rest in Peace".
[17]Jan. 6, 2012, Kentucky ready for hemp? - Bowling Green Daily News: Local News - State Sen. Joey Pendleton, D-Hopkinsville, says as an agricultural product, its time has come. The push for hemp production comes the wake of the death of longtime Kentucky political figure Gatewood Galbraith
[18]Jul 6, 2012 – State Senator Perry Clark introduces Gatewood Galbraith Memorial Medical Marijuana Act
[19]Jan. 4, 2013, ACE Lexington's Weekly Newspaper writes, "Iconic Kentuckian Gatewood Galbraith, the Lexington defense attorney and perennial candidate, died one year ago. “A Celebration of the Life and Times of Gatewood” is scheduled for Sunday, January 6"
[20]Jan. 4, 2013, Mary L. Thomas-Spears launched a web site memorial dedicated to her lawyer, friend, colleague, hero,... [21] and on Feb. 4th, 2013, Ms. Thomas-Spears announces she has re-worded, tailored and slightly redefined the Jack Herer Initiative dubbed [22] CCHI2014 in Cali. An initiative she among others had helped a mutual friend and colleague of Gatewood's, Jack, to word for repeal... [23] Now, this time, she had reworded, redefined CCHHI with Gatewood's understanding, his desires for the Commonwealth, the plant, the people and the continued Repeal of Prohibition in mind for Kentucky and the Kentucky Cannabis Hemp Health Initiative 2014 grassroots lobby campaign for repeal of all Commonwealth, U.S. and U.N. drug policies on all levels of government defining cannabis/marijuana/hemp as prohibit is launched in Kentucky. It is immediately endorsed by the grassroots repeal organization she herself is a founding board member of [24] Americans For Cannabis and their chapter [25] Kentucky For Cannabis, which she currently heads. [26] On February 6 the Facebook page KCHHI was launched.[27] On Feb 12th, it is announced a KCHHI page is added to the Constitutional Cannabis web site she had built as a memorial to Gatewood.
[28] Feb. 14th, It is announced Hemp bill passes first hurdles in Senate by Kentucky media.
Feb. 15th, 2013, It is announced by [29] Kentucky Government "another Senate committee unanimously approved – and the full chamber voted 31-6 to pass – a bill legalizing industrial hemp production in Kentucky" and the [30] Associated Press and media all over Kentucky lead with headlines reading "Industrial hemp bill passes Kentucky Senate".

Political activism

Gatewood was creatively active in many issues and groups. In an amusing stunt Gatewood laid down to protest the UN themed interdependance float for Independence Day Parade (July 4, 1995) in Lexington Kentucky, which got him a charge of interfering with a procession. In 2004, he became a columnist for the Louisville-based alternative weekly Snitch Newsweekly, writing on cases he has handled, and debating with other contributors on civil liberties.
In his writings and speeches Galbraith went into detail on what he termed "Synthetic Subversion". This theory seeks to explain when, how and why America, specifically Kentucky, moved from an agricultural agrarian society into an industrial synthetic society. Galbraith claimed that the beginning of this shift can be traced back to the New Deal era spearheaded by Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration. Up until the early 1930s, America and Kentucky relied solely on agriculture to fuel the economy. Galbraith argued that, out of necessity, Roosevelt shifted America toward a more industrial (synthetic) society fueled by alliances with “Greedy Corporations.”
[31] He worked closely with his long time friend and supporter Norm Davis, gun rights advocate, activist and Founder of the grassroots organization "Take Back Kentucky" in support of smaller government and preservation of our constitutional freedoms and rights with-in the commonwealth.
[32]A quote from his book "THE LAST FREE MAN IN AMERICA" and the chapter titled "I DECLARE MARIJUANA LEGAL" which begins on page 281. Lays out for all Americans their Constitutional Rights to utilize Marijuana and his Constitutional Argument concerning the Prohibition of Marijuana ~ "They did not say we have a Constitutional right to possess alcohol.
They said we have a Constitutional right to privacy in our homes, under which fits the possession of an extremely poisonous alcohol.
Now this is the law in Kentucky today. In fact, it is these rulings that keep the Kentucky State Police from kicking down the doors of people possessing alcohol in Kentucky's 77 `dry' counties right now and hauling their buts off to jail."
Now Marijuana a demonstrably less harmful substance than alcohol and presents far less of threat to public welfare. So it also fits in a person's right to privacy in their home. It's beyond the police power of the state as long as I don't sell it and it's for my own personal use."
Referring to a discussion he had been targeted in during a Debate while running for Attorney General in Kentucky with current running mate Greg Stumbo he said, "He obviously thought he could hang me over the marijuana issue, and here I was explaining Constitutional Law to him which, I still don't think he comprehends."
Evidence he was, if anything, a Constitutionalists in his activism who was indeed about protecting, defending the rights and freedoms of the citizens under the U.S. Constitution he swore to uphold and defend as not only an Attorney, but as a young man who had served in the U.S. Military.
Galbraith appeared onstage, on TV and in films with many notable public figures, including well known environmental activist Julia Butterfly Hill, author/filmmaker Christopher Largen, author/activist Jack Herer, country music artist/singer/film star Willie Nelson, artist/author/film star/producer Woody Harrelson,...
Galbraith appeared in the 2003 movie [33] The Hempsters Plant the Seed along with Woody Harrelson, Ralph Nader, Julia "Butterfly" Hill, and other political Activist who stood against Marijuana Prohibition in an attempt to educate the world on the subject of Marijuana/Cannabis/Hemp.
[34]In 2011 CELEBSTONER of Entertainment News wrote their review of it.
[35]He was featured in the documentary film, "A NORML Life."

Political campaigns

Galbraith ran for various offices in Kentucky including commissioner of agriculture, governor (five times - as a Democrat in 1991, 1995, and 2007, as a Reform Party candidate in 1999,[36] and as an independent in 2011[1]), U.S. representative (twice), and attorney general.
Galbraith was a vocal advocate for ending the prohibition of marijuana cannabis hemp[37] and was known for his witty quips.[38]
Galbraith pitched his campaign for economic, education, and environmental development to voters of all ages throughout the commonwealth. In particular, he proposed real change through what he called, restoring the people's agenda to government and by putting Kentucky values first. Promises included a freeze on college tuition, a $5,000 grant or voucher provided to motivated high school graduates to any institution of higher learning, college or technical school; Moratorium on all university and college tuition increases; Advancing education through technology; Restore hemp as an agriculture crop; Ending marijuana cannabis hemp prohibition in Kentucky. Restoration of voting and gun rights of non-violent felons; Agricultural Market Development; Stringent natural resources stewardship; Recreational and tourism development; Water standard enforcement; Expansion of Fish and Wildlife Programs; No state worker furloughs; Expanded energy development; Internet access to all counties; Tax reform, including No income tax for those who earn 50K or less, and small business tax exemptions; Job development; Return investment policy established; Regional economic development offices; Marketing Kentucky's signature industries; An end to fracking and mountain top removal. He raised $100,000 of his $500,000 budget and was endorsed by the United Mine Workers, the first time the union has backed an independent.[39]

1983 run for Agriculture Commissioner

He ran for Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner after incumbent Democrat Alben Barkley II decided to run instead for Lieutenant Governor. Galbraith ran as a Democrat and ranked last among four candidates in the Democratic primary with 12 percent of the vote. David Boswell won with a plurality of 35 percent.[40]

1991 gubernatorial election

Main article: Kentucky gubernatorial election, 1991
He ran for Kentucky Governor. He ranked last in a four candidate Democratic primary with 5 percent of the vote. Lieutenant Governor Brereton Jones won the primary with a plurality of 38 percent.[41]

1995 gubernatorial election

Main article: Kentucky gubernatorial election, 1995
He ran for governor again at the end of Brereton Jones's term -- although Jones was able to pass an amendment to the state constitution allowing officials to succeed themselves in office once, the amendment exempted then-sitting officials, including Jones. In the Democratic primary, he ranked fourth in a five candidate field with 9 percent of the vote. Lieutenant Governor Paul Patton won with a plurality of 45 percent of the vote.[42] In the general election, Galbraith decided to run as a write in candidate and got just 0.4 percent of the vote.[43]

1999 gubernatorial election

Main article: Kentucky gubernatorial election, 1999
He ran again for governor. This time he ran on the Reform Party ticket and got 15 percent of the vote, the best statewide general election performance of his career. The Republican candidates were Peppy Martin for governor and Wanda Cornelius for lieutenant governor. Incumbent Democratic Governor Paul Patton won re-election with 61 percent of the vote.[44]

2000 congressional election

Galbraith ran for Kentucky's 6th congressional district of the U.S. House of Representatives as an independent. Incumbent Republican U.S. Congressman Ernie Fletcher won re-election with 53 percent of the vote. Democratic nominee, former U.S. Congressman Scotty Baesler, got 35 percent of the vote. Galbraith ranked third with 12 percent.[45]

2002 congressional election

Galbraith decided to run in the 6th District again. Incumbent Republican U.S. Congressman Ernie Fletcher won re-election with 72 percent of the vote. No Democrat filed to run against him. Galbraith, as an independent, ranked second with 26 percent of the vote, his highest percentage in an election.[46]

2003 run for Kentucky Attorney General

Galbraith decided to run for Kentucky Attorney General as an independent. Democrat State Representative Gregory Stumbo won the election with 48 percent of the vote. Republican nominee Jack Wood ranked second with 42 percent of the vote. Galbraith ranked third with 11 percent.[47]

2007 gubernatorial election

Main article: Kentucky gubernatorial election, 2007
Galbraith decided to run for governor a fourth time. This time, he decided to run as a Democrat, the first time since 1995. In the Democratic primary, Galbraith ranked fifth in a six- candidate field with 6 percent of the vote. He carried Nicholas County with 32 percent. Lieutenant Governor Steve Beshear won with a plurality of 41 percent of the vote. Bruce Lunsford ranked second with 21 percent. Former Lieutenant Governor Steve Henry ranked third with 17 percent. Speaker of the Kentucky House Jody Richards ranked fourth with 13 percent.[48]

2011 gubernatorial election

Main article: Kentucky gubernatorial election, 2011
Galbraith decided to run for governor a fifth time. This time, he decided to run as an independent. Incumbent Democrat Governor Steve Beshear won re-election with 56 percent of the vote. Republican State Senator David Williams of Burkesville, the President of the State Senate, ranked second with 35 percent. Galbraith trailed with 9 percent.[49]

Published work

  • Galbraith, Gatewood (2004). The Last Free Man In America Meets The Synthetic Subversion. Outskirts Press. ISBN 1-932672-35-4.




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Harry Fowler, British character actor, died he was 85.


Henry James "Harry" Fowler, MBE was an English actor in film and TV  died he was 85. Over a career lasting more than sixty years he made nearly 200 appearances on screen.

(10 December 1926 – 4 January 2012) 

Personal life

Fowler was born in Lambeth, South Lon­don on 10 December 1926. As a “near illit­er­ate news­pa­per boy” mak­ing eight shillings a week, he told film his­to­rian Brian McFar­lane, he was invited on to radio to speak­ about his life in wartime London.[1]
In 1951 Fowler mar­ried actress Joan Dowling who took her own life in 1954 after her career began to fail.[2] In 1960 he married Catherine Palmer, who survived him. [3]
Fowler died on 4 January 2012. He had no children.[3][1]

Career

Fowler made his on-screen debut as Ern in the 1942 film Those Kids from Town, a propaganda piece about wartime evacuee children from London. This role was given to him after film company executives heard him speaking on the radio about his experiences in wartime London. After a screen test at Elstree studios, Fowler was given the part to star alongside George Cole. His fee was £5 a day, compared with the 8 shillings a week he had been earning as a newspaper boy up to his audition.[1]
His early juvenile roles included Hue and Cry (1947), usually considered the first of the Ealing Comedies. Fowler later married Joan Dowling, one of his co-stars in the Ealing film. Dowling committed suicide in 1954, aged 26.[4]
During the Second World War he had been an aircraftman in the RAF and played a cheerful cockney character with the same job in the film Angels One Five (1952),[5] a portrayal he used in other contexts, often with a humorous slant, mostly especially during his year in The Army Game (1959–60) TV series.
He played Harry Danvers in the clerical comedy Our Man at St Mark’s (1965–66) opposite Donald Sinden[6] and made several appearances on children's television during the 1970s, reading on Jackanory and hosting the series Get This and Going A Bundle with Kenny Lynch.[4] He is also noted for having nar­rated Bob Godfrey Films’ Great: Isam­bard Kingdom Brunel (1975), the first British car­toon to win an Acad­emy Award.[2] His familiar voice was regularly used for TV commercials.
In 1975, Fowler took the part of Eric Lee Fung, described as "a Chinese cockney spiv", in The Melting Pot, a sitcom written by Spike Milligan and Neil Shand. The series was cancelled by the BBC after the first episode had been broadcast.[7]
He was awarded an MBE in 1970, as part of Harold Wilson's Resignation Honours.[8]
In his book British Film Character Actors 1982, Terence Pettigrew wrote that Fowler 'was as English as suet pudding...his characters were neither honest nor irretrievably delinquent, merely wise in the ways of the streets, surviving through a combination of wit and stealth. He had a certain arrogance, but there was an appealing vulnerability, too.'

Selected filmography

Selected TV appearances



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James F. Crow, American geneticist, died he was 95.

James Franklin Crow was Professor Emeritus of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison died he was 95.

(January 18, 1916 – January 4, 2012)  


 Some of his most significant peer-reviewed contributions were coauthored with Motoo Kimura.[6][7][8][9][10] His major contribution to the field, however, is arguably his teaching. He wrote an influential introductory textbook on genetics and a more advanced one with Kimura, and the list of his graduate and undergraduate students and postdocs includes Alexey Kondrashov, James Bull, Joe Felsenstein, Russell Lande, Dan Hartl, Takeo Maruyama, Terumi Mukai, Wen-Hsiung Li, Chung-I Wu, Charles Langley, and many others.

Biography

Crow was a pioneer and giant in the field of genetics. His University of Wisconsin genetics faculty profile reviews his historic contributions through research, teaching, public service, ethical analysis, and leadership. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, The American Philosophical Society, the World Academy of Art and Science, the National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was a long-time member of the Madison Symphony Orchestra, playing viola. He was a president of both the Genetics Society of America and the American Society of Human Genetics. He was a foreign member of the Royal Society. He helped define the meaning of genetic counseling.

Early life and education

Crow was born in 1916 in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, where his father was a teacher at Ursinus College. The family moved to Wichita, Kansas, two and a half years later, in 1918, where Crow was part of the 1918 flu pandemic. He went to school in Wichita, then to Friends University, at the time a Quaker school, also in Wichita, graduating in 1937.
At school, he enjoyed physics and chemistry, but pursued chemistry more strongly at university. He picked up biology as well, and double majored in chemistry and biology. A genetics course in his junior year was his first exposure to that field, even though the syllabus omitted the modern synthesis.
Delaying the decision of whether to become a biologist or chemist, Crow applied for graduate fellowships in both biology and biochemistry. He took up the first positive reply, a position with H. J. Muller at the University of Texas at Austin, in spite of knowing that Muller was in Russia at the time. It turned out that Muller had no intention of returning to his position in Texas, and so J. T. Patterson became Crow's supervisor there. Under the influence of Muller, Patterson was starting to switch to Drosophila genetics, having previously worked on the embryology of the armadillo, and so it was that Crow came to study the genetic isolating mechanisms in the Drosophila mulleri group. This included a combination of doing mating crosses between species and looking for chromosome rearrangements using polytene chromosomes. (Polytene chromosomes are large aggregations of actual chromosomes which, once appropriately stained, facilitate the discovery of chromosome rearrangements through an ordinary light microscope. Polytene chromosomes are mostly found in the salivary glands of some species.) In his studies of pre-mating isolation, Crow was one of the first to study genetic reinforcement, and also observed that species occurring together were sexually isolated, while those living apart were not.
A great influence on Crow at the time was W.S. Stone, who encouraged him to learn more mathematics, while he himself knew none. Crow later admitted to struggling with some of the advanced maths and physics courses he took as a result, but also said they had been rewarding.

Dartmouth College and the war

Crow graduated with his PhD in 1941 and moved to Dartmouth College just prior to the American entry into World War II, where he remained until 1948. The original plan had been to get a postdoctoral fellowship to work with Sewall Wright at the University of Chicago, but this proved difficult just at the start of the war.
His appointment in Dartmouth was to teach genetics and general zoology, but as faculty were drafted off into military endeavors, Crow took on an increasing number of courses. Crow particularly delighted in being able to teach embryology and comparative anatomy. When it seemed likely that he himself would be drafted, Crow took a course in navigation, at which, owing to his mathematical training, he proved so adept that he was asked to teach it. As parasitology became relevant to the war (as it did on the opposing front, where Willi Hennig was active in this area), he was asked to also teach parasitology and haematology. Not long after, he was also teaching statistics. It may be that, having to teach many hours each day, Crow discovered his love for teaching at this point. He later recounted that there were several students all of whose courses were taught by him.
He, like many of his colleagues of the era, had college-time involvement with pacifist groups that had communist leanings. During WWII, he tried to enlist, but was deferred until the end due to his teaching commitments.

Race and IQ controversy

Crow wrote "Genetic Theories and Influences: Comments on the Value of Diversity," an article in the Harvard Educational Review reprinted in the review's reprint series[11] responding to Arthur Jensen's 1969 article, "How Much Can We Boost IQ and Academic Achievement?"

Paternal Age Effect on DNA

Crow also did research and writing in how DNA in sperm degrades as men age, though repeated copying, and can then be passed along to children in permanently degraded form, which they likely then pass on as well. As a result, he said that the "greatest mutational health hazard to the human genome is fertile older males". He described mutations that have a direct visible effect on the child's health and also mutations that can be latent or have minor visible effects on the child's health; many such mutations allow the child to reproduce, but cause more serious problems for grandchildren, greatgrandchildren and later generations[12]

Research Description

Much of Crow’s research has been in the area of theoretical population genetics, but he has often ventured into the laboratory. Over a career that spanned more than 50 years, Crow and his collaborators studied a variety of traits in Drosophila, dissected the genetics of DDT resistance, measured the effects of minor mutations on the overall fitness of populations, described the behavior of mutations that do not play the selection game by Darwin’s rules, and investigated many other subjects. His theoretical work has touched virtually every important subject in population genetics. Crow developed the concept of genetic load, has contributed to the theory of random drift in small populations, has studied of the effects of non-random mating and age-structured populations, and has considered the question, “What good is sex?” He also developed ways to estimate inbreeding in human populations by making use of the way in which surnames are “inherited,” and was a world expert on the genetic effects of low level ionizing radiation In addition to his many research publications, Crow published many reviews and appreciations of the work of his colleagues. His book on population genetics, written with Motoo Kimura, is a combination of textbook and monograph a major contribution to the literature of population genetics research and still the classic in its field.

Public Service

Crow chaired the Department of Medical Genetics for five years and the Laboratory of Genetics (Genetics plus Medical Genetics) for a total of eight years. He also served as Acting Dean of the UW Medical School for 2 years. He was President of the Genetics Society of America and the American Society of Human Genetics. He was the co-editor-in-chief of the journal GENETICS and edited its perspectives section from 1987 until 2008. Crow served at the national level as a member of the General Advisory Committee to the Director of NIH and of the executive council of the National Committee on Radiation Protection, chaired the NIH Genetics Study Section and the NIH Mammalian Genetics Study Section, and chaired several committees for the National Academy of Sciences including a committee to study forensic uses of DNA fingerprinting.
In addition, Crow for many years played viola for the Madison Symphony Orchestra and served as President of the Madison Civic Music Society and of the Madison Symphony Orchestra. He led a fund-raising drive to establish an endowment for the Pro Arte String Quartet.
Crow was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, The American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the World Academy of Art and Science. He was an honorary Fellow of the Japan Academy and a Fellow of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. He died of congestive heart failure in 2012.[13]

Selected publications




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Dickey Betts died he was 80

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