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Steve Feller: a life in borates

21 November 2025   (1 Comments)
Posted by: David Moore

A picture of Professor Adrian Wright on the left presenting a Fellowship certificate to Professor Steve Feller

Steve Feller: Centenary Honorary Fellow of the Society

We have just heard news of the death of Steve Feller one of the three Centenary Honorary Fellows of the Society of Glass Technology. We would like to pass on our condolences to Barbara, the whole family and the many former and current students.

Steve was a regular attendee at the SGT Annual Meetings, bringing a great number of his undergraduates to present their research and fit in a visit to research collaborators such as Dr Alex Hannon. He also managed to get to see the final day's play of the Test match between England and the West Indies at Trent Bridge in 2024!

The Borates conference the SGT hosted in Oxford in 2017 was dedicated to Steve Feller and two papers from the meeting are now available in the Open Access/free to view area of the website:

A 44 Year Search: How do the fundamental physical properties of borate glass reveal its underlying atomic structure: an adventure with undergraduates

Steve Feller: a life in borates

The Gazette obituary link

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David Moore says...
Posted 24 November 2025
An early obituary was published in The Gazette: https:www.thegazette.comobituariessteve-doc-feller

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