The Public Biologist: The Life and Legacy of Geneticist Bentley Glass

简介这个为期两年的项目调查遗传学家宾利玻璃（1906-2005），一个著名的美国教育家，行政人员和公民自由主义者的生活和遗产。基于费城美国哲学学会以前未探索的材料，这个传记项目使用档案历史的方法来探索在冷战时期美国同时成为公共知识分子和科学家意味着什么。知识分子MeritGlass的公共和专业选择对历史学家对冷战科学家生活的理解提出了挑战。玻璃举行了领导作用，在一个非常广泛的公共，私人和专业组织，从马里兰州美国公民自由联盟，以巴尔的摩董事会的学校专员，以美国科学促进会，以生物科学课程研究。他在学术自由和公民权利方面尤其直言不讳，当时政治言论更通常导致科学家的职业边缘化，但他的职业生涯蓬勃发展。因此，对格拉斯经历的理解与战后学术自由、种族、教育和科学权威等问题的研究尤其相关。潜在的更广泛的影响Glass的生活和遗产与当代许多关于科学与社会之间正确关系的辩论有关，包括专家在民主中的作用，基因检测的使用以及学校的进化论教学。作为一个遗传学家的“普通人”，格拉斯的职业生涯为我们提供了一个透镜，让我们了解今天仍然是科学特征的制度结构的发展。鉴于他参与科学，政治，民权和公民自由，他的生活研究提供了连接冷战科学史与美国政治，社会和文化历史在战后时期的更广泛的故事的潜力。

IntroductionThis two-year project investigates the life and legacy of geneticist Bentley Glass (1906-2005), a prominent American educator, administrator, and civil libertarian. Based on previously unexplored materials at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, this biographical project uses the methods of archival history to explore what it meant to be simultaneously a public intellectual and a scientist in Cold War America. Intellectual MeritGlass's public and professional choices present a challenge of historians' understandings of the life of a Cold War scientist. Glass held leadership roles in an extraordinarily wide range of public, private, and professional organizations, from the Maryland American Civil Liberties Union, to the Baltimore Board of School Commissioners, to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, to the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study. He was particularly outspoken on academic freedom and civil rights during a time when political statements more typically resulted in scientists' professional marginalization, yet his career thrived. An understanding of Glass's experiences is therefore particularly relevant to the strands of scholarship on postwar science that deal with academic freedom, race, education, and scientific authority. Potential Broader ImpactGlass's life and legacy hold relevance for many contemporary debates about the proper relationship between science and society, including the role of experts in a democracy, the uses of genetic testing, and the teaching of evolution in the schools. As a sort of geneticist "everyman," Glass's career provides a lens into the growth of institutional structures that continue to characterize science today. Given his involvement in science, politics, civil rights, and civil liberties, a study of his life offers the potential to connect the history of Cold War science with the broader story of American political, social, and cultural history in the postwar period.