Glayde Whitney

Glayde Whitney
Born	1939 Montana, United States
Died	January 8, 2002 (aged 62–63) Tallahassee, Florida, United States
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	University of Minnesota
Scientific career
Fields	Behavior genetics
Institutions	Florida State University

Glayde D. Whitney (1939 – 8 January 2002) was an American behavioral geneticist and psychologist He was professor at Florida State University. Beyond his work into the genetics of sensory system function in mice, in his later life he supported David Duke as well as research into race and intelligence and eugenics.

Whitney was born in Montana and grew up in Minnesota. He earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota, as well as his doctorate from there in 1966. He then enlisted in the United States Air Force and served until 1969. He subsequently worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics with the University of Colorado at Boulder, under Gerald McClearn and John C. DeFries.

In 1970, Whitney was hired by Florida State University to represent behavioral genetics in the psychobiology program, where he stayed until his death at the age of 62 on January 8, 2002, after contracting a severe cold that aggravated emphysema. He considered himself to be a "Hubert Humphrey liberal."

Whitney was the author of over 60 papers on the genetics of taste sensitivity in inbred mice. Support for some of this work came from a prestigious Claude Pepper Award for Research Excellence from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders and in 1994 he received the Manheimer Lectureship Award from the Monell Chemical Senses Center, which recognizes career achievements of individuals in the chemosensory sciences. At the height of his genetics career he was the president of the Behavior Genetics Association.

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