S. Donald Stookey

His discoveries and inventions have contributed to the development of ceramics, eyeglasses, sunglasses, cookware, defense systems, and electronics.

His inventions include Fotoform, CorningWare, Cercor, Pyroceram and Photochromic Ophthalmic glass eyewear.

[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.

Stookey also invented photosensitive glass using gold in which permanent colored photographs can be produced.