John B. MacChesney
John Burnette MacChesney II. (Born July 8, 1929 in Glen Ridge , New Jersey ) is an American chemist and fiberglass pioneer.
MacChesney studied at Bowdoin College with a bachelor's degree in 1951, did military service in the Korean War and then studied at the City College of New York and New York University . In 1959 he received his PhD in geochemistry from Pennsylvania State University . He then went to Bell Laboratories . He was also an adjunct professor at Brown University , Rutgers University and the Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea.
At Bell Labs, he first worked on the electrical and magnetic properties of ceramics and crystals before turning to glass fibers around 1972. With PB O'Connor he developed Modified Chemical Vapor Deposition (MCVD) for the production of optical glass fibers. Later he dealt with erbium for the doping of glass fibers for the production of optical amplifiers. In the early 1980s he invented the sol-gel process in fiberglass production.
In 1999 he received the Charles Stark Draper Prize and the John Tyndall Award , the IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award in 1978 and the James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials in 1989 . He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering .
He holds over 100 patents.
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| SURNAME | MacChesney, John B. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | MacChesney, John Burnette II. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist and fiber optic pioneer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glen Ridge , New Jersey |