Robert Klark Graham (June 9, 1906 – February 13, 1997) was an American eugenicist and businessman who made millions by developing shatterproof plastic eyeglass lenses and who later founded the Repository for Germinal Choice, a sperm bank for geniuses, in the hope of implementing a eugenics program.
These criteria were numerous and exacting: for example, sperm recipients were required to be married[citation needed] and to have extremely high IQ, though the bank later relaxed this policy so it could recruit athletes for donors as well as scholars.
Graham's overriding goals were the genetic betterment of the human population and the nurture of newly conceived geniuses.
This was a form of "positive" eugenics, meant to increase the number of designated "fit" individuals in a population through selective breeding.
[3] In 1991 Graham was awarded the first Ig Nobel prize in biology for his "pioneering development of the Repository for Germinal Choice" [4]