The USA’s Pennsylvania State University and the International Commission on Glass have announced the presentation of the 2010 Woldemar A Weyl International Glass Science Award to John Mauro of Corning’s Science and Technology Division.
The Weyl Award is presented every three years to recognise a young scientist whose work in glass has shown ingenuity, initiative and, above all, innovative thinking. Dr Mauro received the prestigious award at the 22nd International Congress on Glass, which took place in Salvador, Brazil on 21st – 25th September 2010.
Dr Mauro is recognised worldwide as an expert in the modelling and characterisation of the relaxation behaviour of glass. He is known for a series of highly cited papers on statistical mechanical models of structural relaxation and for his development of computational techniques to implement his theory.
At the International Congress on Glass, Dr Mauro presented a plenary award lecture, entitled ‘Recent Advances in Liquid and Glassy Dynamics’, during which he presented new models for predicting the temperature and thermal history dependence of viscosity in glasses; a highly important topic to the glass industry for developing new glasses and manufacturing processes.
John Mauro receives Weyl Award at ICG congress
Published 23rd September, 2010 by Greg Morris
Greg Morris
Glass International Editor
Greg Morris has been editor of Glass International and organiser of the Glassman conferences since 2012, specialising in glass packaging. Prior to this he spent five years working in newspaper journalism.