Don Uhlmann

Now the founder, lead scientist and president of Agienic, Don Uhlmann has been a director of Donnelly Corporation for 23 years, and is currently Professor of Materials and Optical Science at the University of Arizona. Don is a member of numerous technical societies, and has been elected a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society, and of the U.K. Society of Glass Technology. He formerly served as a Trustee of the Ernst Abbe Foundation as chairman of the Science Advisory Board of the Institut fur Neue Materialien, both in Germany

He has been elected a member of the Academy of Ceramics, and of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Don has received numerous awards for his contributions to the scientific literature on glasses, ceramics and polymers. He has published more than 400 technical papers, and is the author or editor of a dozen books. He is active as a consultant to industry, and is a director of several privately owned corporations.

Don received a bachelor of science degree in physics from Yale University and a Ph.D. in applied physics from Harvard University. He served as a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for more than two decades, and was Cabot Professor of Materials at MIT before going to the University of Arizona as Chairman of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

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