Sperm Banking

Founder of High-IQ Sperm Bank Dies

Published in Blood Weekly, March 3rd, 1997

Dr. Robert Klark Graham, who believed that intelligence could be bred and used his theories to establish a "Nobel sperm bank," has died in Seattle, Washington. He was 90.

Graham died at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was found in his hotel room bathtub after hitting his head in a fall, said his wife, Dr. Marta Everton Graham.

Graham's Repository for Germinal Choice takes credit for fathering more than 212 children since it opened in 1980 in Escondido, north of San Diego, California. At first, it only accepted the sperm of Nobel Prize winners.

Graham's researchers scoured Who's Who and...

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