The Stanford R. Ovshinsky Award for Excellence in
Non-Crystalline Chalcogenides

The Stanford R.Ovshinsky Award for Excellence in Non-Crystalline Chalcogenides was established in 2001 — by members of the Forum of Chalcogeniders — to honor Stan Ovshinsky's pioneering work in the field of Non-Crystalline Chalcogenides and is awarded yearly to recognize the outstanding contributions of scientists and technologists who work in this field.

The Award is conferred during one of the international conferences where the majority of the members of the Forum of Chalcogeniders meet. Two winners are selected every year and each winner can only receive one award during his or her lifetime. In 2003, 28 candidates were nominated globally for the Award.

Generally, about 20 to 25 distinguished scientists in the chalcogenide field are selected to serve as the international jury for the Award. Yearly, the members of the jury are refreshed, although a person can serve more than once on the panel.

The 2004 Award
The Award was conferred during the American Ceramic Society's Glass & Optical Materials Division Fall 2004 Meeting— incorporating the XIVth International Symposium on Non Oxide Glasses (ISNOG) — which was held in Cocoa Beach, Florida, USA, from November 7 through November 12, 2004.

The 2003 Award
The Award was conferred during the Fourth Romanian Conference on Advanced Materials, ROCAM-2003,in Constanta, Romania, September 14-20.

The winners were Prof. Punit Boolchand, University of Cincinnati, USA, and Prof. Koichi Shimakawa, Gifu University, Japan.

The 2002 Award
The Award was conferred during the International Symposium on Non-Oxide Glasses, ISNOG-13, held in Pardubice, Czech Republic, September 9-12. The winners were Prof. Victor Lyubin of Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and Dr. Alexander Kolobov of National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan, and of A.F. Joffe Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia.

The 2001 Award
The Award was conferred during the First International Workshop on Amorphous and Nanostructured Chalcogenides, held in Bucharest, Romania, June 25-28. The winners of the Award were Prof. Stephen R. Elliott of the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and Prof. Keiji Tanaka of the Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.