The George W. Morey Award is presented by the Glass & Optical Materials Division of ACerS and is sponsored by Guardian Glass, LLC. The award recognizes new and original work in the field of glass science and technology. The criterion for winning the award is excellence in publication of work, either experimental or theoretical, done by an individual. The award committee will select each year’s winner.
George W. Morey spent most of his career (1912–1953) at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, where he and others made major contributions to glass and ceramic science and technology over most of the past century.
Morey was associated with the Geological Survey of the U.S. Dept. of the Interior from 1957 until he died in 1965. A pioneer in the study of glass properties, he was an Honorary Member of The American Ceramic Society. Dr. Morey’s book “The Properties of Glass” is a classic work in the field of glass technology.
The Award consists of a glass piece, a complimentary meeting registration and travel reimbursement.
Beginning in 2025, the George W. Morey Award will be awarded every other year (2025, 2027, 2029, etc.).
Nomination Process
Morey nomination package should include:
- One page letter of support from lead sponsor that includes a statement about the impact and quality of the nominee’s publications on the field
- CV (note that selection will be based primarily on published contributions to the field
- Additional letters of recommendation by those knowledgeable of the nominee’s achievements and publications are permitted but not required
Only one Morey lecturer per year will be selected. Attending the GOMD Annual Meeting and giving the lecture is a condition of acceptance of the Morey Award.
For more details on all GOMD awards you may qualify for, see the attached GOMD Awards Table.
Contact
Send nominations electronically to:
Jessica Rimsza
2024–2025 Chair, Glass & Optical Materials Division
and ACerS Staff Member Vicki Evans
Award Winners
Daniel R. Neuville
Daniel R. Neuville is a senior research director at CNRS-IPGP, Université de Paris. He obtained his PhD in geochemistry from Université Paris Diderot in 1992 and conducted postdoctoral research at the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington (1993–1994). He joined CNRS as a researcher in 1994 and has led the Geomat group at IPGP since 2014. From 2012 to 2025, he chaired the Master’s program in Geochemistry, Geomaterials, Geobiology, and Environment at IPGP-Université Paris Cité.
His research pioneers the use multiple spectroscopies to develop structural models for glasses and melts, bridging geomaterials, physics, and chemistry. He has significantly advanced the understanding of macroscopic properties in relation to atomic-scale structure and dynamics.
Daniel has received the Jean Rose Prize from AFAS (1999), the Joubin-James Visiting Professorship at the University of Toronto (2007–2008), the Fellowship of the Mineralogical Society of America (2018), and the Otto Schott Research Award (2022).
He has served as Guest Editor for Elements (2010, 2019), Review in Mineralogy and Geochemistry “Spectroscopic methods in Mineralogy and Material Sciences” (2014) and “Geological Melts” (2022), AGU Monograph on Magma Redox Geochemistry (2021), and Comptes Rendus Geoscience (2022) and Physique (2023).
He was the elected chair of the commission of Physics of Minerals of the International Mineralogical Association (2014–2022). Since 2011, he has chaired the French Glass Network (USTV) and is currently president of the European Society of Glass Science and Technology. He was the chair TC03 Committee on the structure and properties of glass of the International Commission on Glass, ICG, and in 2025 he was elected CTC of ICG.