New York: The Indian-American scientist, who first compared the movements of atoms in glass to the wiggling of jellyfish in water, has won the top award in the field of glass science.

Himanshu Jain, Director of the International Materials Institute for New Functionalities in Glass (IMI) at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, received the Otto Schott Research Award on July 2, at the International Congress on Glass in Strasbourg, France.

The Biennial Award, which carries a cash prize of $34,055, is the most prestigious prize for glass research.

The donors' association for the promotion of science in Germany, which administers the Schott Award, also noted with appreciation Jain's research into unique light-induced phenomena in glass, his studies of the corrosion of glass in nuclear environments, and his work with Sensors, Infrared Optics, WaveGuides, Photolithography, Nanolithography and other Photonic applications of Glass.