Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Joanna McClelland Glass

PlaywrightWashington, DC

Canada
Expert
Joanna McClelland Glass Listen to Joanna McClelland Glass’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Joanna McClelland Glass is a playwright best known for her play, Trying, based on her relationship with Francis Biddle, who was the United States Attorney General under FDR and chief judge at the Nuremberg Trials. Glass worked for Biddle in 1967 up until his death in 1968. Glass is the author of two novels, one of which, Women Wanted, was turned into a film. 

Related Profiles

John Adams

John Adams is an American composer of contemporary classical music. After graduating from Harvard in 1972, Adams moved to California, where his compositions began to attract attention.

John Coster-Mullen

John Coster-Mullen is a nuclear archaeologist and author of Atom Bombs: The Top Secret, Inside Story of Little Boy and Fat Man.

Jerome Karle

Chicago, IL

Jerome Karle (1918-2013) was an American chemist and Nobel laureate. During the war, Jerome Karle and his wife, Isabella Karle, worked on the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago.

Martyl Langsdorf

Chicago, IL

Martyl Suzanne Langsdorf was born on March 16, 1917. Her mother was a painter and her father was a photographer.