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Callie Higgins Honored for Service to America

Callie Higgins in a lab. She is standing in front of a reflective screen surrounding an atomic force microscope.

Callie Higgins with her hybrid atomic force microscope 3D printer.

Credit: C. Higgins/NIST

Callie Higgins was named a 2021 Emerging Leader for inventing a groundbreaking technology to detect and remedy microscopic flaws that threaten the safety and reliability of 3D–printed products, potentially revolutionizing the medical, plastics, coatings, optics and additive manufacturing fields. Learn more.

Created October 28, 2021