Hiram Bentley Glass (January 17, 1906 – January 16, 2005) was an American geneticist and noted columnist. Career 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. degree 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. He taught at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri and at Goucher College in Maryland before joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins. Glass was a frequent attendee of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Symposia. In 1965, Glass became the first academic vice-president and professor of biological sciences at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Glass was a critic of creationism. He was an honorary member of the National Association of Biology Teachers. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1959, and to the American Philosophical Society in 1963. Glass's 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 Glass on Genetic Determinism Like his doctoral mentor H. J. Muller, Glass was deeply troubled by eugenics. In response to the views of Charles Davenport, Morris Steggerda and others, Glass wrote an essay, "Geneticists Embattled: Their Stand Against Rampant Eugenics and Racism in America During the 1920s and 1930s" (1986). The following excerpt is emblematic: "Let us remember that the genes which are passed down in the egg and sperm from one generation to another are simply molecules of DNA, selected over eons as providing individuals to survive in a real world and to reproduce