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2019 William A. Wildhack Award - Georgia Harris

NCSLI will best remember Georgia Harris for her outstanding sustained support for “Education” and has brought a new focus to this much

2019 Rabi Award - Steven Jefferts

For exceptional leadership in the design, development, and operation of cold-atom microwave atomic clocks.

Kristan Corwin Receives the 5 Sigma Physicist Award

Kristan Corwin was awarded the 2019 5 Sigma Physicist Award for the writing of an op-ed in The Topeka Capital-Journal on the impact of NSF

Long Phan Receives American Concrete Institute (ACI) Concrete Research Council Arthur J. Boase Award

This honor was bestowed specifically “in recognition of your research on the response of high strength/high performance concrete structures

Mark McLinden Honored by Institute of Refrigeration

Dr. McLinden is cited for “applying state-of-the-art thermodynamic property tools to address a key challenge facing the industry, namely the

Lily Chen Receives Federal 100 Award

Congratulations to Lily Chen who received the 2019 Federal 100 award.

Ron Ross Receives Federal 100 Award

Congratulations to Ron Ross who received the 2019 Federal 100 award.

2019 IEEE CSC Graduate Study Fellowship in Applied Superconductivity - Abigail Wessels

Through my involvement with optimization of soft x-ray TESs, I intend to help broaden the impact of the applied superconductivity field and

2019 IEEE Fellow - Kin Ping (Charles) Cheung

for contributions to plasma process-induced damage in integrated circuits

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Lisa Ng, Brian Polidoro

For developing innovative methods for predicting air leakage in commercial buildings, significantly improving the design of energy-efficient buildings.

2018 - Arthur S. Flemming Award---Ralph Jimenez

For his leadership in creating new tools to observe and measure the internal chemistry and biology of individual living cells in real time, accelerating previous studies by factors of 10,000 and more.

2018 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Jessica Reiner

For technology transfer related to per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS), resulting in world-class recognition as an expert in PFAS metrology.

2018 - George A. Uriano Award---Allison Barnard Feeney, Thomas D. Hedberg, Jr.

For vision, leadership and outstanding contributions to the use of standards in the digital transformation of manufacturing enterprises.

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Thomas Forbes, Edward Sisco

For extraordinary innovation in the development of new mass-spectrometric techniques for the chemical analysis of emerging explosives threats.

2018 - Gold Medal Award---John Lehman, Michelle Stephens, Nathan Tomlin, Igor Vayshenker, Christopher Yung

For revolutionizing optical power metrology through the world's first primary fiber-based standard to support telecommunications, sensing and defense.

2018 - Distinguished Career Award---John Lowe

For decades of exceptional and dedicated service in supporting a broad range of NIST activities as a world-class scientist, manager, and ambassador.

2018 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Wyatt Miller

For advancing surface-temperature metrology and its real-world applications, including a novel web-based shipment-monitoring system.

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---John Barton

For leading the development of legal metrology standards for "app-based" transportation-network measurement systems used in ride-hailing applications.

2018 - Silver Medal Award---James Filla, Mohammad Khalil, Joey Boyd, Aaron Johnson, Iosif Shinder

For advancing gas-flow measurement science to enable smokestack emissions measurements that are accurate, traceable, and comparable internationally.

2018 - Jacob Rabinow Applied Research Award---Michael Donahue, Donald Porter

For enabling widespread use of nanomagnetic modeling and simulation to enhance U.S. innovation in research and product development.

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Gilberto Castillo, José Colucci-Rios, Brian Lagas, Adelwiza Lequin, Anne-Louise Marquis, J. Michael Simpson, Gloria Solomon, Kenneth P. Voytek, Jedd Vertman

For expedited, cross-agency funding and program support of MEP Centers to assist manufacturers impacted by hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria.