Glass-ceramics Evolution & Kitaigorodskii
Russian scientist Isaak Il’ich Kitaigorodskii played a central role in shaping the field of glass and glass-ceramic development, significantly expanding potential applications of these novel materials. Our well-known glass-ceramics textbooks by McMillan,1 Hlaváč,2 and Höland & Beall3 highlight the history of a key discovery: In 1739, French chemist René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur became the first …