H. Bentley Glass

Hiram Bentley Glass (January 17, 1906–January 16, 2005) was an American geneticist and noted columnist. Born in China to missionary parents, he attended college at Baylor University in Texas. He then furthered his education at the University of Texas, where he received his Ph.D. under the mentorship of geneticist Hermann Joseph Muller. His first major academic appointment was at Johns Hopkins University, at which time he was also a regular columnist for the Baltimore Evening Sun newspaper.

In 1965, Glass became the first Academic Vice-President and Professor of Biological Sciences at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Dr. Glass' scientific papers were donated and are available at the American Philosophical Society.

Throughout his long scientific career, he held many distinguished academic titles, including

Editor of The Quarterly Review of Biology, 1944-1986
Editor of Science, 1953
President of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), 1954-1956
President of the Maryland Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 1955-1965
President of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), 1958-1960
Chairman of the Board of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS), 1959-1965
President of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), 1967
President of Phi Beta Kappa, 1967-1970
President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1969
President of the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT), 1971

[edit] Selected bibliography

Bentley Glass Progress or Catastrophe: The Nature of Biological Science and Its Impact on Human Society (Praeger Publishers, 1985). ISBN 0-275-90107-6
Bentley Glass, Owsei Temkin, William L., Jr. Straus Forerunners of Darwin, 1745-1859 (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1968) ISBN 0-8018-0222-9
Bentley Glass "Ethical Basis of Science" (Haifa, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 1969)
Bentley Glass "Science and ethical values" (Greenwood Press, 1981)