James Naismith document for a record $4,338,500 USD, the most ever paid for a sports memorabilia item, and gifted the document to the University of Kansas. Swade's project and eventual success are chronicled in a 2012 ESPN 30 for 30 documentary "There's No Place Like Home" and in a corresponding book, "The Holy Grail of Hoops: One Fan's Quest to Buy the Original Rules of Basketball". The University of Kansas constructed an $18 million building named the Debruce Center, which houses the rules and opened in March 2016. James Naismith was the second child of Margaret and John Naismith, two Scottish immigrants.
James Naismith (chemist) for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). His nomination for the Academy of Medical Sciences reads: Naismith is married to Rachel Middleton with whom he has one son and one daughter. James Naismith (chemist) James Henderson Naismith (born 26 July 1968) is Professor of Structural Biology at the University of Oxford, Director of the Research Complex at Harwell and co-interim academic lead of the Rosalind Franklin Institute. He was formerly Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Chemical Biology at the University of St Andrews until May 2017. Naismith was educated at Hamilton Grammar School. He went on to study at the University of