S. Donald Stookey
His discoveries and inventions have contributed to the development of ceramics, eyeglasses, sunglasses, cookware, defense systems, and electronics.[1][3] He received a $1000 fellowship to cover living expenses and as a teaching laboratory assistant in the chemistry lab.When an oven thermometer was stuck on the higher temperature, Stookey had accidentally created the first glass-ceramic, Fotoceram.CorningWare went to the consumer marketplace the next year in 1958 for cookware by Corning Glass Works and became just one of Stookey's multimillion-dollar inventions.[3] Pyroceramic glass has the necessary properties to be used by the military for the nose cones of supersonic radar domes in guided missiles applied in defense.[3] It has the special properties of extreme hardness, super strength, resistance to high heat and transparency to radar waves.
Hay Springs, NebraskaRochester, New YorkAmericanCoe CollegeLafayette CollegeMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyCorningWareJohn Price Wetherill MedalNational Medal of TechnologyRonald ReaganNational Inventors Hall of FameMaterials scienceCorning Glass WorkspatentsceramicsPyroceramCedar Rapids, Iowaliberal artsEaston, PennsylvaniaMaster of ScienceCambridgedoctorateAlfred Universityglass ceramicsserendipitousGorilla Glassphotochromic glassophthalmic lensesphotosensitive glassmagna cum laudeFranklin InstituteAmerican Ceramic SocietyGeorge Washington UniversityAmerican Chemical SocietyIRI Achievement AwardIndustrial Research InstituteSigma XiNational Academy of EngineeringSociety of Glass TechnologyAmerican Institute of Chemical EngineersCorning Museum of GlassWiley-BlackwellCorning IncorporatedThe New York TimesAnchor HockingArc HoldingsArdagh GroupAurora Glass FoundryBaccaratBarovier & TosoBerengo StudioBlenko GlassBormioli RoccoBorosilCaithness GlassCorningCrystalexDartington CrystalDuralexFanavidFenton Art Glass CompanyFranz MayerGlaverbelGuardian IndustriesHadelandHardman & Co.Holmegaard GlassworksHolophaneKingdom of CrystalKokomo Opalescent Glass WorksKosta BodaLibbeyLiuli GongfangIittalaLuoyangJohns ManvilleMannokMats Jonasson MåleråsMoser GlassMosser GlassNippon Sheet GlassNižbor glassworksO-I GlassOrreforsOwens CorningPauly & C. - Compagnia Venezia MuranoPhu PhongPilkingtonPPG IndustriesPreciosaRiedelRoyal BrierleySaint-GobainSaint-LouisSegusoSchottSterlite Optical TechnologiesSteubenSwarovskiVal Saint LambertVallérysthalWaterfordWatts & Co.World KitchenXinyi GlassZwieselList of defunct glassmaking companiesJohn AdamsRichard M. AtwaterFrederick CarderIrving Wightman ColburnHenry CrimmelFriedrichA. H. HeiseyDeming JarvesEdward D. LibbeyDante MarioniAntonio NeriMichael Joseph OwensAlastair PilkingtonFlavio PoliSalviatiOtto SchottHenry William StiegelLino TagliapietraW. E. S. Turner