The American Scientific Glassblowers Society is a not for profit organization that is dedicated to sharing the knowledge, techniques, and skills of scientific glassblowing to its worldwide membership. Organized and staffed with an all volunteer workforce, countless hours are dedicated to the exchange of techniques and knowledge through paper presentations, seminars, and workshops at the annual ASGS Symposium and Regional Section meetings. The publication Fusion, Journal of the American Scientific Glassblowers Society and The Proceedings of the ASGS Annual Symposium document this collection of papers and presentations. Significant emphasis by senior glassblowers is placed on the advancement of young or apprentice glassblowers through the ASGS Junior Member Training Program and the Mentor Program. These programs help assure that future generations of glassblowers will benefit from the experience of others.

We invite you to browse this web site so that you can gain some insight into the scientific glassblowing profession. Scientific glassblowers provide highly specialized glass apparatus for all universities with graduate research programs, government, private, and industry research laboratories, production facilities, the semiconductor industry, and many other aspects of scientific research. Generally, the scientific glassblower is dedicated to research support and does not make glass apparatus that can be found in catalogs. (No beakers, test tubes, or flasks). Each glass apparatus is designed and constructed by the scientific glassblower based on collaboration with individual researchers at their location. This web site shares many of these innovative designs that were conceived through collaborative efforts and made into a reality by a scientific glassblower.