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 to 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
*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. Straus, Jr. 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)
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