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Office of the Director

Awards

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2019 - Bronze Medal Award---Michael Halter

For development and deployment of a method to benchmark performance of fluorescence microscopes that is accessible to the general user community.

2019 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Alexey Gorshkov

For his groundbreaking research in quantum science, which included manipulating individual light particles to strongly interact.

2019 - Edward Bennett Rosa Award---Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Frank Riddick, Evan Wallace

For outstanding technical leadership in the development of a new information standard and software to support food manufacturing and food safety.

2019 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---David Long

For contributions to the measurement of carbon-containing materials, and for his commitment to mentoring young scientists.

2019 - Arthur S. Flemming Award---R. Joseph Kline

For his interdisciplinary research of methods to determine the complex, three-dimensional structure of state-of-the-art microelectronic devices and the molecular structure and orientation of organic electronics materials for flexible electronics.

2019 - Bronze Medal Award---Morgan Frycklund

For professional excellence in advocating an inclusive workforce via stewardship of the Incentive Awards and Reasonable Accommodation programs

2019 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Gregory Vogl

For outstanding leadership of the Engineering Laboratory SURF technical representatives through a new and challenging selection and review process.

2019 - George A. Uriano Award---Douglas Devereaux, Dileep Thatte

For creating a partnership with the Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance, leveraging MEP Centers' outreach in support of food safety in the US.

2019 - Silver Medal Award---Yun Liu

For identifying the root cause of a major obstacle preventing promising new monoclonal antibody therapies from reaching their true potential.

2019 - Presidential Rank Award---Ian Spielman

For his pioneering work and leadership in developing quantum simulation techniques to investigate natural phenomena too complex for traditional mathematical computation.

2019 - Bronze Medal Award---Allison Barnard Feeney, Shaw C. Feng, John A. Horst

For vision, leadership and outstanding contributions to a standard for the exchange of quality information in digital manufacturing enterprises.

2019 - Bronze Medal Award---Andrea Centrone

For pioneering a novel tool that provides first-ever multi-modal imaging of significant biomolecules such as those relevant to Alzheimer's disease

2019 - Distinguished Mentoring Award---Brian Copello

For exceptional mentorship of NIST staff and establishment of career progression pathways for CTL administrative staff.

2019 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Theresa Shuggars

For outstanding Human Resources services to NIST.

2019 - Gold Medal Award---Adam Jacoff, Kenneth Kimble, Kamel Saidi, Ann Marie Virts

For outstanding development and dissemination of standard test methods used worldwide to evaluate and improve bomb-disposal robots and operators.

2019 - Bronze Medal Award---John Elliott, Elijah Petersen, Blaza Toman

For development and implementation of a measurement assurance strategy to improve comparability and reliability of cell-based assays.

2019 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Edwin P. Chan

For developing innovative measurement methods that reveal the complex properties of soft polymer films.

2019 - Jacob Rabinow Applied Research Award---Jabez McClelland

For innovations in laser cooling of atoms resulting in the commercialization of new methods for performing ion beam fabrication and microscopy.

2019 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Kathryn Keenan

For development of a world-first suite of standards for magnetic resonance imaging and providing leadership in the medical and scientific community through technology transfer and mentoring.

Back Row: Sherman, Beloy, Swann, Hume, Newbury, Ludlow Front Row: Leibrandt, Sinclair

2019 - Gold Medal Award---Kyle Beloy, David Hume, David Leibrandt, Andrew Ludlow, Nathan Newbury, Jeffrey Sherman, Laura Sinclair, William Swann, Jun Ye

For creating and networking the world's best optical atomic clocks for a 100-fold improvement in precision timekeeping over the state of the art.