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.
Donate to the George W. Morey Award Fund
We are asking for donations for this award from ACerS members. A donation to this award will be deposited in a specific fund for this purpose only.
You can send a check, made payable to The American Ceramic Society (add a note that your donation is for the “George W. Morey Award”) and mail to:
The American Ceramic Society
Attn: Ms. Vicki Evans
470 Olde Worthington Road, Suite 200
Westerville, OH 43082
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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:
Collin Wilkinson
2026–2027 Chair, Glass & Optical Materials Division
and ACerS Staff Member Vicki Evans
Award Winners
Sabyasachi Sen
Sabyasachi Sen is a professor of materials science and engineering at University of California, Davis. He obtained his M.S. in Geological Sciences from University of Houston where he got interested in natural glasses formed during volcanic eruption and meteorite impact. That interest eventually led him to glass science and technology. After finishing a short stint working with Prof. Alexandra Navrotsky at Princeton University on thermodynamic measurements on glasses and glass-ceramics, he moved to Stanford to follow his passion to pursue NMR spectroscopic studies of glass structure and relaxation and completed his Ph.D. in 1996 from Stanford University under the guidance of Prof. Jonathan Stebbins, where he was a postdoctoral fellow until 1997. He then joined the Faculty of Physics at the University of Wales in UK, where he was until 1998 and worked with Late Prof. Neville Greaves on various glass-related problems. From 1999 until 2004, he was a senior scientist in the glass research group at Corning Incorporated, where he focused on developing glasses for long-distance telecommunication and flat panel display. He joined the department of materials science & engineering at UC Davis in 2004, where he currently serves as the department chair and holds the Blacutt-Underwood Professorship. His current research interests include the development and application of state-of-the-art spectroscopic and rheological techniques to study atomic structure and dynamical phenomena in glasses, glass-forming liquids and ceramics. He has authored/co-authored 288 scientific papers on glasses and ceramics, holds 7 patents, and is the recipient of the W. A. Weyl International Glass Science Award, the Varshneya Frontiers of Glass Science Lecture Award and the Otto Schott International Research Award.