The Glass & Optical Materials Division invites nominations for the Stookey Lecture of Discovery, named in honor of materials pioneer Dr. S. Donald Stookey. Dr. Stookey created major life-changing inventions including photosensitive and photochromic glasses, and glass-ceramics and in 1986 was presented with the National Medal of Technology from President Ronald Reagan in recognition of his scientific achievements.
This award recognizes an individual’s lifetime of innovative exploratory work or noteworthy contributions of outstanding research on new materials, phenomena, or processes involving glass, that have commercial significance or the potential for commercial impact.
The winner presents a distinguished lecture at the Glass & Optical Materials Division Annual Meeting and receives a glass piece and a $1000 honorarium sponsored by Corning Incorporated and Coe College. The criterion for winning the award is technical innovation.
Nomination Process
Nomination package should include:
- Sponsor’s executive summary;
- Patents and publications related to the nominee’s career and discoveries;
- Two letters of recommendation by those knowledgeable of the nominee’s technical achievements and pre-eminence in their fields.
For more details on all GOMD awards you may qualify for, see the attached GOMD Awards Table.
Contact
Nominations should be sent electronically by January 21 to:
Jessica Rimsza
2024–2025 Chair, Glass & Optical Materials Division
and ACerS Staff Member Vicki Evans
Award Winners
Timothy M. Gross
Dr. Timothy M Gross is the Director of Inorganic Materials at Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY. He is responsible for leading a research and development team focused on building deep technical understanding of inorganic materials to enable invention and optimization of new glasses and ceramics.
Tim has a PhD in Materials Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an MS in Materials Science and Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology, and a BS in Ceramic Engineering from Alfred University. Tim joined Corning in 2008 and has established himself as an expert in both fracture mechanics and glass formulation. Tim’s early work focused on mechanics of ion-exchangeable glass and resulted in invention of several iterations of Corning® Gorilla® Glass. Tim also served as the research lead of the Corning® Bendable Glass program where he defined the solution space for use of ultra-thin, bendable glass in mobile electronic devices. Tim’s work on automotive glass resulted in several innovations including Fusion5® damage-resistant windshield glass. Tim also invented Guardiant® antimicrobial glass-ceramic that kills ≥ 99.9% of bacteria and viruses while maintaining long term efficacy. For his technical achievements at Corning, Tim was given the title of Research Fellow in 2017. Tim has 153 granted United States patents and 34 peer-reviewed publications. He has won numerous Corning internal awards including the 2012 Stookey Award for outstanding exploratory research and the outstanding external publication award in both 2019 and 2022. Tim is a member of the American Ceramic Society and American Chemical Society. His current areas of research include high ionic conductivity glass-ceramics and glasses with hydration-induced stress profiles.