Peter Schultz making a germania-doped multimode fiber perform using the outside vapor deposition process circa 1972. Soot is deposited layer-by-layer onto a thin bait rod rotating and translating in front of the flame hydrolysis burner.
- 2020 First CV Raman Memorial Lecture IEEE
- 2010-2019 Director and Secretary to Virgin Islands Next Generation Network
- 2017 American Ceramic Society Stookey Lecture of Discovery Award
- 2007 Director of University of the Virgin Islands Research Technology Park
- 2001 Retired from Heraeus
- 2001 Elected outside Director and Advisor of OFS Inc.
- 2001 Peter Schultz Consulting, LLC founded
- 2001 National Academy of Engineers-elected member
- 2000 Chief Technical Officer-North America, Heraeus Holding GMBH.
- 2000 President, Heraeus Photonics Inc.
- 2000 Vice chairman, Geltech Inc.
- 2000 Rutgers University Alumni Hall of Fame
- 2000 National Medal of Technology recipient
- 1999 Malcolm MacLaren Award, New Jersey Ceramic Association
- 1997 Chairman, BioSensor Inc.
- 1995 American Innovator Award, first recipient, U.S. Dept. of Commerce
- 1994 Director, Geltech Inc.
- 1993 National Inventors Hall of Fame induction
- 1988 President, Heraeus Amersil
- 1986 Vice president of technology, Galileo ElectroOptics Inc.
- 1986 Scholes Award, Alfred University
- 1984 Vice president of technology, SpecTran Corp.
- 1983 Outstanding Alumnus Award, Rutgers University
- 1983 Engineering Materials Achievement Award, American Society of Metals
- 1981 Technology Achievement Award, Society of Photo Industrial Engineers
- 1977 International Glass Science Weyl Award, International Glass Congress, first recipient
- 1974 Co-inventor of flame hydrolysis method to make silica glass planar optical waveguides
- 1972 Discovered that germania-doped fused silica could be made by OVD process
- 1970 Co-inventor of doped fused silica optical waveguides and IVD process
- 1968 Ph.D. ceramics science, Rutgers University
- 1967 Joined Corning as senior research scientist
- 1964 B.S., ceramic engineering, Rutgers University