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.
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.
Contact
Send nominations electronically to:
Michelle Korwin-Edson
2024–2025 Chair, Glass & Optical Materials Division
and ACerS Staff Member Vicki Evans
Award Winners
Stephen H. Garofalini
Professor Stephen H. Garofalini is Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. He obtained a BS and a BA from Rutgers in Ceramic Science and Engineering and Liberal Arts, respectively, an MS in MSE from the University of Washington, and his Ph.D. in MSE from Stanford University. After his MS degree, he worked at Lockheed on the development of the Space Shuttle Insulation Tiles and coatings for the tiles as a Scientist (1973-1977) and later, while at Stanford full time, part-time as Research Engineer (1977-1980). He held summer visiting faculty ASEE awards at Stanford and NASA Ames Research Center in 1981, 1982. Starting at Rutgers in 1980, he has performed both experimental surface spectroscopies on glasses and computational molecular dynamics simulations, with emphasis on the latter. His group has developed innovative and reactive force fields for studies of atomistic behavior involving glass surfaces, water/glass interactions, proton transport, nanoconfined phases, intergranular thin films, and conversion cathodes in Li-ion batteries using a dynamically variable charge potential. He is currently evaluating auto-dissociation of water molecules that are consistent with ab-initio calculations employing nuclear quantum effects. He has over 130 publications and over 120 invited talks at national and international conferences. He is ranked in the top 2% of the world’s most-cited scientists in his field as determined by the Stanford Top 2% listing. He received both NASA and Lockheed awards and is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society.