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RIP Stanley Stookey

Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 11:19 am
by themanintheseersuckersuit
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... tuary.html

Discoverer of a new class of materials

Among Stookey’s early projects at Corning was to develop glass coins during the Second World War, as an answer to a nationwide copper shortage. (The idea was scotched on grounds of expense, and zinc used instead of copper.)