Corning vs corningware
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S. Donald Stookey
Donald Stookey invented glass ceramics, materials that embodied important advances in glass technology and led to the popular CorningWare line of consumer dishes.
Among Stookey's contributions at Corning Glass Works was Fotoform glass, which could be photochemically etched into precise and detailed structures. In 1953, Stookey discovered that when he overheated the glass it became harder, stronger, and higher in electrical resistivity. This new crystalline material, called glass ceramic, opened a new field of high temperature chemistry in glass.
CorningWare, the revolutionary cookware and dishware, was first marketed in 1958. In addition to consumer products, glass ceramics have been used to make products such as nose cones for guided missiles and smooth-top cooking surfaces for stoves. They are suited to this wide range of applications because of extreme hardness, super strength, resistance to high heat, and transparency to radar. Stookey also pioneered photochromic glass, used to make optical lenses that darken and lighten in reaction to changes in light.
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The S. Donald Sussman Award
The S. Donald Sussman Award is presented to individuals or groups who best exemplify Donald Sussman’s career as a successful investor in quantitative investment strategies and models.
The award is named in honor of S. Donald Sussman, the Founder and Chairman of Paloma Partners. Since founding Paloma more than 40 years ago, Sussman has worked in many areas of investments but he is best known for his pioneering role in the backing and development of quantitative strategies and managers. He was named to the Institutional Investor-Alpha Hedge Fund Hall of Fame in 2013. He has been an active philanthropist focusing on education, the arts, and the environment.
S. Donald Sussman lecturers receive a $100,000 cash prize and share their insights on quantitative finance and the financial industry through public lectures to be delivered at MIT Sloan during the year of the award. At the event honoring the establishment of the Award, MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein noted that the award is an “important resource for recognizing excellence in finance at M
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Donald Sussman
American asset manager (born 1946)
Selwyn Donald Sussman[1][2] (born June 8, 1946) is an American asset manager and philanthropist who is the founder and chief investment officer of the Paloma Funds. Sussman has served on the boards of a number of civic, cultural, educational, and research institutions and is a major contributor to Democratic candidates and causes.[3]
Early life and education
Sussman was born to a Jewish family[4] in June[5] 1946, the son of Beatrice (née Zimmerman) and William Sussman.[6] His father was a real estate developer.[6] He was raised in Miami, Florida[7] and attended high school at Windsor Mountain School, a boarding school in Lenox, Massachusetts.[6] He then attended Columbia College before continuing on to New York University, from which he earned B.S. and M.B.A. degrees.[8]
Career
Sussman's career in finance began in 1958, when, at the age of 12, he made a sixfold return on a $300 investment in the stock of Mic
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