ICG Award goes to SCHOTT scientist

Dr. Klaus Bange (60), a scientist at SCHOTT, was presented with the Willaim E.S. Turner Award in recognition for his outstanding achievements and long-standing commitment to the International Commission on Glass in September at the opening event of the ICG Congress in Salvador, Brazil. This Congress is held every three years

A physicist, Dr. Bange received his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Berlin in 1982. He began his career with the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society before joining SIEMENS in Berlin and became a SCHOTT employee in 1987. Responsible for various tasks related to the characterisation and development of thin films for electrochromic devices, he rose to head the Electron Microscopy and Thin Films Analysis and the Solid State Analysis departments. In 1997, he started establishing the Analysis Measurement Services (AMS) group and in 2001 took over responsibility for luminescence
Technology, one of the units at SCHOTT Spezialglas GmbH. From 2005 through 2010, he served as Senior Principal Scientist. His scientific achievements have been published in more than 130 articles and books.

As a member of the ICG, he served as Chairman of the Technical Committee Glass Surface Diagnostics and Vice-Chairman of the “Coordinating Technical Committee” from 1994 until 2003, before serving as its Chairman from 2004 until 2009. From 2004 through 2009, he organised the “DGG Glas Forum” on behalf of the “Deutsche Glastechnische Gesellschaft” (DGG).