Awards

Congratulations to Joshua Lubell on his 2017 GCN dig IT award! Josh won for his development of Baseline Tailor, an app designed to help users implement the NIST Cybersecurity Framework more easily. More: https://gcn.com/…/2…/10/05/dig-it-cyber...

The work is available at: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10853-017-1355-4

Group Leader Frank DelRio, leader of the Fatigue and Fracture Group in the Applied Chemicals and Materials Division, has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The ASME Committee of Past Presidents confers the...

He is being recognized for contributions to global time synchronization.

Presented this year to Marc Levitan of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), recently the (Acting) Director fo the Nation Wind Impact Reduction Program. Among many accomplishments, Dr. Levitan also served as the Managing Director...

For the development of a Radiation Pressure Power Meter that enables extremely high continuous laser powers to be measured as the force applied by the laser light reflects from a mirror. And improving on conventional power meters as a truly portable...

Kartik Srinivasan of NIST’s Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) was elected Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA). Dr. Srinivasan received the honor for his outstanding contributions to nanophotonics and quantum optics, including cavity...

The best oral presentation award at the 2017 European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology and American Society for Precision Engineering Special Interest Group Meeting on Dimensional Accuracy and Surface Finish in Additive...

Congratulations to Chris Stafford (Functional Polymers Group) for being selected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society for 2017. He is being recognized for “developing innovative techniques to enhance physical understanding of polymer thin...

For significant contributions to the least squares adjustments of the fundamental constants of nature from experimental data and to the redefinition of the international system of units.

For his wide ranging contributions in using quantum properties of light and matter towards developing applications ranging from extreme sensitivity sensors and transducers to quantum information processing.

For absolute measurements in neutron physics and ultra-high resolution gamma spectroscopy.

Mark O. McLinden and Andrei F. Kazakov of MML, along with Piotr A. Domanski of EL, were awarded a 2017 Department of Commerce Gold Medal. The group was recognized for performing a systematic and exhaustive search for the next generation of...

Andrew Slifka and Elizabeth Drexler were recognized for providing the ASME hydrogen pipeline code committee the scientific basis for revising its design and construction codes, reducing the material and labor required for new hydrogen pipelines while...

Sae Woo Nam’s team at NIST is honored for a landmark experiment which, in conjunction with related results elsewhere, put to rest a debate about the nature of quantum reality that has persisted for eight decades. The dispute, first raised by Albert...

Perkins is being recognized for work described as New twists in the molecules of life. In a decade long project, Perkins developed powerful new tools to measure and study individual biomolecules. He then partnered with the biotech industry to develop...

Ana Maria Rey was named a NIST Fellow in recognition of her world-leading program in quantum theory, her pioneering work in quantum many-body physics, & her continuing powerful collaborations with experimentalists at JILA, NIST, & across the world.

Dodson’s project featured in her talk was the investigation of catalysts in model systems.

For the design and construction of a series of highly sophisticated scanning probe instruments.

Congratulations to Richard Kuhn for receiving the 2018 IEEE Innovation Award in Societal Infrastructure Award, for advancing the foundations and practice of information security through creation, development, and technology transfer of role-based...

Congratulations to David Ferraiolo on receiving the 2018 IEEE Innovation Award in Societal Infrastructure Award, for advancing the foundations and practice of information security through creation, development, and technology transfer of role-based...

The award recognizes international leadership and impact in the organization’s main areas of biological, chemical, and physical sciences.