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William Henry Gates II [1] (November 30, 1925 – September 14, 2020), better known as Bill Gates Sr., was an American attorney, philanthropist, and civic leader.He was the founder of the law firm Shidler McBroom & Gates (a predecessor of K&L Gates), [2] and also served as president of both the Seattle King County and Washington State Bar associations. [3]
The following year a Parliamentary Committee for Legalising Eugenic Sterilization was established and, in July 1931, Archibald Church M.P. (a member of both the Committee and of the Eugenics Society) rose in the House of Commons to introduce a bill “to enable mental defectives to undergo sterilizing operations or sterilizing treatment upon ...
In 1999, Gates received New York Institute of Technology's President's Medal. [265] Gates was elected a Member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 1996 "for contributions to the founding and development of personal computing". [266] Entomologists named Bill Gates' flower fly, Eristalis gatesi, in his honor in 1997. [267]
Bill Gates met with President-elect Donald Trump for more than three hours about and talked about global health issues, including efforts to develop an HIV cure and to fight polio.
Gates Sr., who now guides the strategic direction of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, also reminisced about a family tradition, when his two daughters and son would accompany their parents ...
Bill Gates Sr. died at home in September 2020 after a battle with Alzheimer’s that had begun more than a decade prior. “I spent yesterday on Alzheimer’s disease,” Gates told CNBC.
After World War II, eugenics and eugenic organizations began to revise their standards of reproductive fitness to reflect contemporary social concerns of the later half of the 20th century, notably concerns over welfare, Mexican immigration, overpopulation, civil rights, and sexual revolution, and gave way to what has been termed neo-eugenics ...
The American Eugenics Society (AES) was a pro-eugenics organization dedicated to "furthering the discussion, advancement, and dissemination of knowledge about biological and sociocultural forces which affect the structure and composition of human populations".