Professor HU Lili, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, is the winner of the 2024 N.F Mott Award, the senior scientist award for outstanding contributions to the science of non-crystalline solids over many years.

　　The Award consists of a certificate and USD 4,000 and is sponsored by the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids (JNCS).

　　Dr. HU has contributed extensively to high power laser glass and laser fiber, including: (1)Revealed the relationship among composition-structure-properties of rare earth ions doped silica-based and multicomponent glasses; (2)Developed the batch production techniques for the large-sized Nd-doped laser glass, one of the key materials in laser nuclear fusion equipment; (3)Achieved the batch production and application of the 10 kW-level high power Yb-doped laser fiber.

　　Prof. HU has published 600+ peer-reviewed papers and 40+ authorized patents, and has published about 40 papers in JNCS. Some of papers garnered significant attention (citations) from the glass community.

　　The N.F Mott Award was presented on August 28th, 2024 at the ICG (International Commission on Glass) Annual Meeting 2024 in Incheon, South Korea by Dr Lina Hu and Dr Morten Smedskjær, Editors of the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids.

　　From left to right: Lina Hu (Editor, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids), Lili Hu (N.F. Mott Awardee 2024), and Morten Smedskjær (Editor, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids).

　　Lina Hu and Morthen Smedskjær presenting the N.F Mott Award during the banquet.

　　N.F. Mott Award, in memory of Sir Nevill Francis Mott

　　The award recognizes a distinguished senior scientist with a history of outstanding contribution to the science of non-crystalline solids over many years.

　　This biannual award consists of $2,000 and a framed certificate.

　　Sir N.F. Mott´s contributions

　　Professor of Physics at Manchester University, Bristol and then Cambridge

　　In 1977, Nevill Mott was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, together with Philip Warren Anderson and John Hasbrouck Van Vleck "for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems”, (especially amorphous semiconductors).

　　Mott was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1936. He served as president of the Physical Society in 1957. He was knighted in 1962. He continued to work until he was about ninety.

　　N.F. Mott Award procedure

　　The N. F. Mott Award recognizes a distinguished senior scientist with a history of outstanding contribution to the science of non-crystalline solids over many years. The recipient is named directly by the Editors of the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids.

　　The award presentation takes place during the Glass & Optical Materials Division Annual Meeting of the award year.

　　N.F. Mott Award winners over the years:

　　2024 - Lili Hu, China

　　2022 – Minoru Tomozawa, USA

　　2020 - Himanshu Jain, USA

　　2018 - Prabhat Gupta, USA

　　2016 - Richard Brow, USA

　　2006 - Robert A. Weeks, USA

　　1995 - Kazunobu Tanaka, Japan

　　1993 - David L. Griscom, USA

　　1991 - Charles Austen Angell, USA

　　1990 - Philip James Bray, USA

　　1989 - Walter Eric Spear, UK

　　1988 - Evgenii A. Porai-Koshits, USSR

　　1986 - John D. Mackenzie, USA

　　1983 - Jerzy Zarzycki, France