The L. David Pye Glass Hall of Fame Award is presented by the Glass & Optical Materials Division annually to a deserving individual(s) in recognition of lifetime dedication, vision, and accomplishments in advancing the fields of glass science, glass engineering, and glass art. ACerS membership is not required. Preference will be given to non-recipients of the ACerS Distinguished Life Membership Award.
Professor L. David Pye has been a visionary leader whose passion to link the global activities of academia, industry, and government in glass science and engineering have been an inspiration to many. These activities have led to an elevation of glass within the field of material science and engineering and have resulted in long-standing initiatives that continue to this day to influence professional societies, students, research and industry-university networks. This Award celebrates his vision, creativity, leadership, and mentorship which have spanned global glass science research, education and scholarship starting his professional career at Bausch & Lomb, Inc., and retiring five decades later as Dean and Professor of Glass Science at the NY State College of Ceramics at Alfred to become an aspiring stained glass artist. His visions included establishing the only PhD in glass science program in the US, being founding director of the NSF-Industry-University Center for Glass Research at Alfred, founding editor of the International Journal of Glass Science, and founding trustee of the Ceramics and Glass Industry Foundation. Dr. Pye is a past president of the American Ceramic Society and the International Commission on Glass and is the recipient of several awards including the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for scholarship.
The L. David Pye Glass Hall of Fame Award is presented at the GOMD’s annual meeting banquet and consists of a certificate, and a glass piece. The awardee also receives a complimentary registration to the GOMD meeting. No lecture is required.
Nomination Process
Nomination profile should include:
- Sponsor’s executive summary
- Nominee’s latest CV
- Two supporting letters
There is no specific nomination form for this award.
Contact
Nominations should be sent electronically to:
Michelle Korwin-Edson
2024–2025 Chair, Glass & Optical Materials Division
and ACerS Staff Member Vicki Evans
Award Winners
Manoj K. Choudhary
Dr. Manoj K. Choudhary is an Adjunct Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University, a position he has held since retiring from Owens Corning in 2018 as a member of its Senior Technical Staff.
He obtained his Doctor of Science degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His doctoral and post-doctoral research at MIT was in the field of Metallurgical Magnetohydrodynamics. After MIT, he joined Owens Corning in 1982. At Owens Corning (OC), Dr. Choudhary was the foremost expert in the application of scientific fundamentals, engineering analysis, and advanced computational techniques for glass and mineral fibers and polymeric process and product innovations. Energy and environmental sustainability was the unifying theme in Dr. Choudhary’s tenure at OC.
Throughout a distinguished 40+ year professional career, Dr. Choudhary’s pioneering R&D and scholarly contributions have markedly advanced numerous fields, notably electromagnetic processing of materials, mathematical modeling of glass melting processes, and heat transfer in glass forming melts. He has given numerous invited and keynote lectures and taught at many forums. He was a Specially Appointed Professor at China State Key Laboratory for Advanced Technology for Float Glass during 2013-2019. He has published over 60 papers and holds ten patents.
Dr. Choudhary is Fellows of both the Society of Glass Technology (UK), and the American Ceramic Society (ACerS). He has presided over various prominent organizations including the International Commission on Glass (ICG), the Center for Glass Research at Alfred University, the Glass and Optical Materials Division of ACerS, and the Glass Manufacturing Industry Council, of which he was also a founder. In 2021-2022, he served as the Chair of the North American Steering Committee, responsible for planning and coordinating activities related to the United Nations’ International Year of Glass-2022, an initiative that was launched during his presidency of the ICG.
Throughout his career, Dr. Choudhary has received numerous awards and honors, including Prof. S. K. Nandi Gold Medal and Institute Silver Medal (from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur), Falih N. Darmara Materials Achievement Award (from MIT), Arthur L. Friedberg Ceramic Engineering Tutorial and Lecture Award (from ACerS), ICG President’s Award, Dr. Atma Ram Memorial Lecture Award (from the Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, India), Samuel R. Scholes Lecture Award (from Alfred University), Varshneya Frontiers of Glass Technology Award (from ACerS), M. G. Bhagat Memorial Lecture Award (from the Indian Ceramic Society), AGC/Professor Michael Cable Memorial Distinguished Speaker Award (Society of Glass Technology), and Academician of the World Ceramic Academy.
Manoj Choudhary is deeply honored and profoundly grateful to be the co-recipient of the prestigious 2024 L. David Lifetime Achievement Award, named after Prof. Pye, his esteemed mentor and dear friend of over four decades.
Carol M. Jantzen
Carol M. Jantzen was the first woman President of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) from 1996-1997 and served on the Society’s Executive Committee for 14 years. She has been an Associate Editor of the ACerS Journal since 1989 and she founded the first ACerS student mentor program. Jantzen was the 2000 recipient of the Alfred University Scholes Lecture Award in Industrial Ceramics, the 2003 winner of the D.T. Rankin Award for outstanding contributions to the ACerS Nuclear and Environmental Technology Division, and the 2005 recipient of the ACerS Bleininger award for lifetime achievement in ceramic engineering. She is a Fellow and Distinguished Life Member of ACerS.
Jantzen received her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering with a specialty in glass chemistry from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She has over 45 years of experience in solidification of high-level radioactive, low-level radioactive, and hazardous wastes in both the United States and Europe. She has performed extensive research and development in vitreous, ceramic, mineral, and cementitious waste forms. Jantzen developed the statistical process control models which have safely and reliably controlled the world’s largest, and the US’s first, high level waste glass vitrification facility (the Defense Waste Processing Facility) for the past 30 years.
Jantzen has two degrees in geochemistry where she studied complex glasses such as molten magmas. Her geochemistry studies were completed both at Queens College of the City University of New York and the Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Aberdeen, Department of Chemistry, in Aberdeen Scotland in the late 1970’s. She received an Honorary PhD from Queens College in 2014 in addition to her earned PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Stony Brook.
Jantzen joined the Savannah River National Laboratory (then known as the Savannah River Laboratory) in 1982. She served as adjunct professor in the Department of Ceramic Engineering at Clemson University in South Carolina between 1989-1999. She retired from SRNL in 2019 and is currently an Affiliated Faculty member of the College of Sciences & Engineering at the University of South Carolina Aiken (USCA). Between 2019-2022 she was a science Advisor for GlassWrx, a company producing foamed recycled glass for seawalls and other applications.
Jantzen has authored ~300 publications and has been awarded eleven U.S. Patents. She is the only Westinghouse employee to have received three George Westinghouse Corporate Gold Signature Awards of Excellence, the highest award offered by Westinghouse Electric Company on the nation-wide level. She was the Citizen’s for Nuclear Technology Awareness Distinguished Scientist for 1997. In 2008 she won the Wendell Weart Lifetime Achievement Award in Nuclear Waste Management for more than three decades of outstanding contributions to nuclear waste management. The Weart Lifetime Achievement Award is sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories to recognize long-term commitment to solving significant nuclear waste management issues. In 2016 she won the South Carolina Governor’s Award for Excellence in Scientific Research. She has served on various committees and studies sponsored by the National Academy of Science and the National Research Council Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Astronomy (CPSMA) between 1997-2003. In 2023 she was inducted into the Marquis Who’s Who Biographical Registry and the Who’s Who of Professional Women: Women of Influence.