Delbert Day, Curators’ Professor Emeritus at the USA’s Missouri University of Science and Technology and Chief Technical Officer of Mo-Sci Corporation, has become the fortieth recipient of the prestigious Phoenix Award. The award is presented annually in recognition of an individual selected by the Phoenix Award Committee for their contributions to glass and the glass industry.
Dr Day accepted the award at a special banquet held in his honour in St Louis in the US state of Missouri. In his acceptance speech, Dr Day said that to be chosen for the award was a ‘great honour’, not only for himself, but for his family and for the Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly University of Missouri-Rolla), where he enjoyed a career spanning almost 50 years.
As a university teacher and researcher, Dr Day has published more than 365 technical papers dealing with the structure, properties and uses of glass, edited three books and received 45 US and foreign patents. While a graduate at Pennsylvania State University, he received a fellowship from PPG?Industries, which is how he became aware of the potential of glass microspheres.
Dr Day went on to co-invent the special-purpose TheraSphere glass microspheres, which are now in commercial use at more than 100 sites worldwide to treat patients with inoperable liver cancer.
Mo-Sci Corporation now supplies glass microspheres, special fibres and other special glass products to some 1200 US?customers and 40 overseas countries. It recently celebrated its 25th anniversary.
