12th Otto Schott Research Award

The breadth of his research comprises the study of transport processes and gas solubility in glasses, crystallization kinetics and their application to industrial rheology, sol-gel processing and formulation of enamels. Among his many excellent results, it is his outstanding contribution in the area of gas solubility in glasses and glass melts. His work in this area is exceedingly comprehensive including master curves revealing the complex relationships between gas speciation, viscosity and multiphase equilibrium.

Prof. Dr. Adrian C. Wright is honored for his lifelong outstanding scholarly work devoted to the experimental study of glass structure in general. Since his milestone paper in 1974 on time-of-flight neutron diffraction measurements on glasses – the first ever published – he continuously has made major contributions to the experimental study of the structure of borate glasses, melts, and crystals. The term of amorphography, as opposed to crystallography, has been associated with his experimental work.