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Alfred R. Cooper, Jr.
Alfred R. Cooper, Jr.
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A1 had a well-rouncled high school career, playing in the band and also playing basketball, but he demonstrated a particular gift for mathematics and science, making perfect scores on the NewYork State Regent's exams. After he graduated from White Plains High School, he entered Alfred University in 1941 as an engineering student, majoring in glass technology.
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In the four years that he worked at RCA, he learned a great deal about the behavior and problems of glass tank melting furnaces, and this knowledge helped to qualify him for his next position, in 1952, as manager of laboratories for the Hartford Empire Division of the Emhart Corporation. In his new job Al traveled widely throughout the country, working as a troubleshooter solving glass composition and melting problems for a variety of glass companies.
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to ceramics. Alfred Cooper's major contributions lie in three areas: he identified and quantified chemical and physical factors that govern the continuous glass melting process; he clarified the conditions necessary for the formation of glass and the relationship of the resulting structures to glass properties; and he was prominent as an educator of glass technologists and ceramic engineers.
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Al's contributions were also recognized by a number of awards, including the Raytheon Award of the New England Section of the ACerS, the George W Morey Award of the Glass Division of the ACerS, the Toledo Glass and Ceramics Award of the Northwestern Ohio Section of the ACerS, the Eitel Award for excellence in silicate science from the University of Toledo, and the Samuel R
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Beyond his accomplishments, however, was this wise and gentle man; coupled with his finely honed intellectual curiosity was a passion for rigorous solutions to problems a philosophy that he conveyed effectively to his students. Admired by his students and colleagues for his integrity, he was modest about his own achievements and preferred to talk to others about their accomplishments.
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