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WARREN WOLF is currently a glass industry consultant in technology and business
issues as Warren W. Wolf Jr. Services. He retired in 2001 after 33 years with Owens
Corning as vice president of science and technology and chief scientist for glass and other
material issues, in both process and product aspects. He received his PhD from Ohio
State University, his BS from Pennsylvania State University, and his MBA from Xavier
University. He has 15 patents. He is president-elect of the American Ceramic Society and
a member of the National Institute of Ceramic Engineering, and the International
Commission on Glass. He serves on the advisory boards for the materials science and
engineering departments at Ohio State University and Virginia Tech.
FRANK E. WOOLLEY is a technical consultant specializing in glass melting. He is
retired from Corning Incorporated where he was manager of melting research in the
Science and Technology Division. His group investigated the fundamental processes of
glass melting and developed new industrial melting processes for Corning’s domestic and
international glass melting. He received BS and MS degrees in chemical and
metallurgical engineering from the University of Michigan, and an ScD in chemical
metallurgy from MIT (1966). He earned a MBA degree from Syracuse University (1980).
He worked at Corning from 1966 to 1998, except for service as a powder metallurgist
with the US Army from 1967 to 1969. He managed various groups in RD&E at Corning,
NY, and Fountainbleau, France, where he was involved with testing and selection of
refractories and raw materials, laboratory- and pilot-scale glass melting and forming,
development of glass compositions, ceramic processing, and vapor deposition of glasses
for optical fibers. He has taught glass technology at Alfred University and at the Center
for Professional Advancement. He is a fellow of the American Ceramic Society (1997);
past chair of Technical Committee 14 on Gases in Glass of the International Commission
on Glass. He is a past member of ASTM Committee C-8 on Refractories, the Society of
Glass Technology, and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He currently
consults for the U.S. Department of Energy and its contractors on vitrification of
radioactive wastes.
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