Awardees 2007:
Prof. Himanshu Jain:
Current
Diamond Chair Professor, head of the Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering , International position
Materials Institute for New Functionality in Glass at the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Thrust Leader for All Optical Functionality, Center for Optical Technologies
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015
Academic degrees
Academic career
1997 Doctorate degree in Engineering Science in the area of Materials Science, Columbia University
1985 – today
1997-98 Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge and Aberdeen Universities, UK.
1991/92 &
1997/98
Lehigh University, Diamond Chair Professor,
Prof., Assoc. Prof. and Assist. Prof.,
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering,
Director, NSF’s International Materials Institute for New Functionality in Glass
Thrust Leader, Center for Optical Technologies
Humboldt Fellow and Visiting Professor
Institute of Physics, University of Dortmund, Germany
National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece
1982 - 1985 Associate Scientist
1985-Fall
Dept. of Nuclear Energy, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Visiting Scientist, Indian Institute of Technology
1985-Summer Consultant, M.I.T. School of Chemical Engineering Practice
1985-Spring Guest Lecturer, Krumb School of Mines, Columbia University
1984-Summer German Academic Exchange Visitor, University of Dortmund
1980
– 1982
Post Doctoral Appointee, Basic Ceramics Group, Argonne National Laboratory
Honors Zachariasen Award for outstanding contributions to glass research
Publications Publisher of 7 books/research reports, and author of 2 U.S. patents and over 200 research articles in national and international journals and official technical documentations on glasses, etc.
Prof. Walter Kob:
Present Full Professor, Département de Physique, Université Montpellier 2, France position
Academic degrees
Academic career
11/97 Habilitation in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics “ Computer Simulations of Supercooled
Liquids and Glasses”, Universität Mainz, Germany
11/89 Ph.D. in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics ( magna cum laude), “Dynamics of a One-
Dimensional Glass Model”, Universität Basel, Switzerland
10/85 Degree in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Universität Basel, Switzerland
9/03
– today
9/00 – 8/03
Full Professor, Département de Physique, Université Montpellier 2, France
Associate Professor, Département de Physique, Université Montpellier 2
Research in statistical properties of disordered systems (supercooled liquids, glasses,
Pott glasses, oxide glasses)
2/94-8/00
9/90-1/94
12/89-9/90
11/85-11/89
Assistant Professor (non-tenure track) in the group headed by Professor Kurt Binder,
Mainz, Germany
Research in statistical properties of disordered systems (supercooled liquids, glasses,
Pott glasses, electrophoresis)
Postdoctoral research associate (with Professor H.C. Andersen), Department of
Chemistry, Stanford University
Research on the dynamics of supercooled liquids
Postdoctoral research associate (with Professor R. Schilling), Institut für Physik,
Universität Basel, Switzerland
Research on the dynamics of glass transformation
Graduate student in theoretical physics (with Professors R. Schilling and T. Thomas),
Institut für Physik, Universität Basel
Research on glass transformation, annealing of defects, non-linear dynamics, domain growth in magnetic materials.
Honors 1992
1990
Fellowship for advanced researchers, Swiss National Science Foundation
Fellowship for young researchers, Swiss National Science Foundation
Publications One textbook (co-authored with Prof. Kurt Binder) and more than 140 research papers

1991 Prof. Werner Vogel, Friedrich-SchillerUniversität, Jena, Germany for his life’s work devoted primarily to phase separation phenomena in glasses.
Dr. Hideo Hosono, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan for his work on the analysis of defect structures in glasses and the developments derived from these for new glasses and glass ceramics.
1993 Dr. Dieter R. Fuchs, FraunhoferInstitut für Silicatforschung, Würzburg, Germany for his development and application of glass sensors as contributions to the preservation of historical glass and buildings.
Prof. Prabhat K. Gupta, Ohio State University, Ohio, USA for his outstanding work on deepening fundamental knowledge on the glassy state, particularly its structure, strength and relaxation.
1995 Dr. David Griscom, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C., USA for the application of the lattice defect concept crystals to the glassy state, their production by radiation and the interpretation of the changes produced by this in the magnetic and optical properties of glassy materials.
1997 Prof. Ruud Beerkens, Dr.s. Anne Jans Faber, Dipl. Ing. Erik Muysenberg, Dipl. Ing. Frank
Simonis, TNO Institute of Applied Physics (TPD), Eindhoven, the Netherlands for the development of a mathematical model based on detailed experimental investigations that simulates behaviour in glass melting tanks with the possibility of optimizing design and process parameters.
1999 Prof. Elias Snitzer, Rutgers University, Piscataway,USA for his far-reaching vision and his pioneering contributions in first realizing laser action in glasses, for his discovery of both neodymium- and erbium-doped laser glasses, and for his development of the first fiber amplifier.
Dr. John H. Campbell, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, USA for his leadership directed to the development, characterization, manufacturing and application of optical materials for high-power lasers, particularly the continuous melting of high-quality, multicomponent phosphate laser glasses.
2001 Professor Reinhard Conradt, Institute of Mineral Engineering, Chair of Glass and Ceramic
Composites, RWTH Aachen, Germany for his conception of a highly versatile approach to thermodynamic modeling of oxide melts and glasses based on constitutional relations of equilibrium phases and for the pioneering results achieved by this approach in the evaluation of physical and chemical properties, particularly chemical resistance, of technical multi-component glasses.
Dr. Boris Anatoljevich Shakhmatkin and Dr. Natalia Mikhailovna Vedishcheva, Institute of
Silicate Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia for the development of a rigorous thermodynamic model of oxide melts and glasses based on compound equilibria and for the impressive results obtained by applying this model to the evaluation of physical properties of two-component glass forming systems.
2003 P rofessor Andreas Tünnermann, Institute of Applied Physics, Friedrich Schiller University,
Jena, Germany for his outstanding research results in the field of solid-state lasers and especially for his revolutionary work on high-power fiber lasers, short pulse fiber lasers and fiber amplifiers, in the development of which he uses glass and other materials.
2005 Prof. Kazuyuki Hirao, Kyoto University, Japan, Dr. Kiyotaka Miura, Kyoto University und
Central Glass Co. Ltd., Japan, Prof. Jianrong Qiu, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine
Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Science, China for their outstanding research and achievements in the area of optical materials, especially their pioneering work on femtosecond laser-induced micro-features in glasses and the application of such novel materials to achieve new functionalities.