Jorg Meyer

Jörg C. Meyer (December 31, 1940 – May 1, 2021) was the official scientific glassblower of the University of California, Irvine.

Life and career Meyer was born in Berlin, Germany, While working at UC Irvine in 1967, Meyer and his wife Allison founded a small company, GlassContour (now Seca Solvent Systems), through which he commercialized this purification process. The Meyers sold GlassContour in 2004 and in 2010 founded a second company, JC Meyer Solvent Systems, which also sells Meyer's stainless steel purification systems.

As well as for his glass and solvent purification work, Meyer is known for his appearance in a National Geographic magazine photo in 1965, riding a 40-foot whale shark as a professional diver in Australia. He was also a falconer

Meyer died on May 1, 2021, at the age of 80.