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Office of the Director

Awards

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2021 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Tommy Armstrong

For sustained superior performance in operations and maintenance focusing on electrical systems on the Gaithersburg campus.

2021 - Edward Uhler Condon Award---Scott Diddams

For outstanding communication of complex research and measurements in a comprehensive and clearly illustrated review of optical frequency combs.

2021 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Brian Ackley

For critical support and services for the NIST Gaithersburg campus fire protection systems including programming, management, maintenance, and repairs.

2021 - Gold Medal Award---Carl Williams

For his sustained and visionary leadership, positioning the U.S. as a global leader of the emerging quantum economy.

2021 - Gold Medal Award---Jason Austermann, James Beall, Gene Hilton, Johannes Hubmayr, Jeffrey Van Lanen, Michael Vissers, Jordan Wheeler

For enabling terahertz and millimeter-wave cameras of unmatched size and sensitivity, now deployed on terrestrial and sub-orbital telescope missions.

2021 - Gold Medal Award---Brandon Lane, Steven Grantham, Ho Yeung, David Deisenroth, Jason Fox, Jared Tarr, Jay Nanninga, Clarence Zarobila

For developing the world-class capabilities of the Additive Manufacturing Metrology Testbed and delivering groundbreaking measurements and data.

2021 - Gold Medal Award---Ellen Voorhees

For creating an unprecedented ability to accurately retrieve reliable, contemporaneous information on COVID-19 to fight the 2020 pandemic.

2021 - Gold Medal Award---Naomi Lefkovitz, Kaitlin Boeckl, Nakia Grayson, Maihuong Nguyen, Lisa Carnahan, Victoria Pillitteri, Adam Sedgewick, Dylan Gilbert

For exceptional leadership in developing, and driving adoption of, a novel framework to manage privacy risk while maximizing the beneficial uses of data.

2021 - Gold Medal Award---Oliver Borchert, Douglas Montgomery, Kotikalapudi Sriram, Patrick Gleichmann

For developing innovative technologies that resolved critical internet vulnerabilities and dramatically improved internet robustness.

2021 - Gold Medal Award---Organizational Representative: Hope Snowden

For exceptional speed, efficiency and transparency in executing CARES Act provisions to support the nation’s manufacturers during a global pandemic.

2021 - Gold Medal Award---Peter Vallone, Megan Cleveland, William Valiant, Erica Romsos, Carolyn Steffen, Nathanael Olson, Stephanie Servetas, Hariharan Iyer

For rapid development of NIST’s first RNA research-grade test material for detection and diagnostic measurements of COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA.

2021 - Gold Medal Award---Lili Wang, Linhua Tian, Elzafir Elsheikh, Sarah Inwood, Sheng Lin-Gibson

For rapidly developing quantitative antibody assays and advancing global standards to underpin development of COVID-19 clinical tests and vaccines.

2021 - Gold Medal Award---Matthew Hummon, John Kitching, Scott Papp, Scott Diddams, Kartik Srinivasan, Daron Westly, B. Robert Ilic

For their landmark development of the first chip-scale optical clock, supporting the most exacting needs of timing applications in the field.

2021 - Silver Medal Award---Joshua Martin, Winnie Wong-Ng, Martin Green

For developing critical thermoelectric standards, instrumentation, and metrologies that enable the commercialization of energy conversion materials.

2021 - Silver Medal Award---Jeffrey Hudgens, Kyle Anderson, Ioannis Karageorgos, Robert Brinson, III, Frank Delaglio, Luke Arbogast, John Marino, Ryan Evans, Anthony Kearsley

For developing and promoting adoption of methods to determine protein structure that increase patient access to life-saving biosimilar drugs.

2021 - Silver Medal Award---Ruben Rodriguez, Jr., Brian Burnham, William Jenkinson, Ramil Palmaira, Christopher Kucko, Derek Ward, Edward Cope, Jonathan Repaci

For innovative leadership of cost-effective facilities construction resulting in a state-of-the-art building for world-leading scientific advances.

2021 - Silver Medal Award---Jason Blake, Robert Gendler, Blair Heiserman, Mark Trapnell, Eric Trapnell, Dylan Yaga, Murugiah Souppaya

For development of the first free public cybersecurity SCAP 1.3 content for the macOS Catalina (macOS 10.15) and Big Sur (macOS 11).

2021 - Silver Medal Award---Varun Verma, Adriana Lita, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Thomas Gerrits, Martin Stevens, Robert Horansky

For advancing quantum communication and imaging applications by creating novel high-efficiency single-photon detectors and kilopixel arrays

2021 - Presidential Rank Award---Nathan Newbury

For outstanding leadership and pioneering contributions to fiber-based optical frequency combs for record-breaking optical time transfer and spectroscopy.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Martin Chiang

For developing a suite of tools and a documentary standard to support advancements and improved clinical longevity for dental composite restorations.

2021 - Distinguished Mentoring Award---Dileep Thatte

For fostering exceptional personal and professional development of NIST staff, and unparalleled support and dedication to the NIST Mentoring Program.

2021 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Jason Carr, Kevin Harrison, Anthony Lonsinger, Wendy Morrison, Laurence Pesek, Erin Presley-Froemke

For their exceptional customer service and support, enabling NIST Boulder staff to succeed while teleworking during a pandemic.