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Physical Measurement Laboratory

Awards

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Steven Jefferts Receives 2019 Rabi Award

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 research in building the technical and scientific workforce in Kansas and participation in the American...

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 continue to increase its relevance within the scientific community. As TESs become used more commonly for...

2019 IEEE Fellow - Kin Ping (Charles) Cheung

for contributions to plasma process-induced damage in integrated circuits

2018 - Gold Medal Award---Randolph Elmquist, Dean G. Jarrett, George Robert Jones, Jr., Marlin E. Kraft, Alireza Panna, Shamith Payagala, Albert Rigosi

For a new quantum-based primary resistance standard, replacing a fragile, complex and expensive system with a robust, simple and affordable one.

2018 - Silver Medal Award---José Aumentado, Konrad Lehnert, Raymond Simmonds, John Teufel

For creating the fundamental, enabling components of future quantum networks that will process information much faster than current computer networks.

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 - Silver Medal Award---Nicholas Paulter, Lawrence Hudson, Ronald Tosh

For the development of critical improvements to image quality assessment methods for security-screening X-ray imagers.

Boone, Luptak, Sherman, Jenkinson, Levine

2018 - Silver Medal Award---Joseph Boone, William Jenkinson, Joseph Luptak, Aaron Fein, Judah Levine, Jeffrey Sherman

For launching the next-generation NIST Internet Time Service, which handles over 40 billion requests every day.

2018 - Edward Uhler Condon Award---Pavel Kabos, T. Mitch Wallis

For making a complex topic accessible through their foundational textbook on measurement techniques for radio frequency nanoelectronics.

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 - Judson C. French Award---Catherine Cooksey, Thomas A. Germer, Heather J. Patrick, Clarence J. Zarobila

For replacing the prevailing reflectance measurement technology of the last 20 years with a novel robotic facility, lowering costs and turnaround time.

Podobedov, Curry, Houston, Eppeldauer, Yoon, Shaw

2018 - Judson C. French Award---John J. Curry, George Eppeldauer, Jeanne Houston, Vyacheslav Podobedov, Ping-Shine Shaw, Howard Yoon

For realizing and disseminating the best-in-the-world capability for absolute calibration of optical detectors from the visible to the far infrared.

2018 - B. Stephen Carpenter Award---Michael Lombardi

For creating the SIM Time Network, a collaboration that makes world-class time metrology accessible to 24 nations throughout the Americas.

2018 - Edward Bennett Rosa Award---Bala Muralikrishnan, Prem Rachakonda, Meghan Shilling, Roger Bostelman, Geraldine Cheok, Joseph Falco, Marek Franaszek, Jeremy Marvel, Kamel Saidi, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud

For outstanding contributions to ASTM standards for performance evaluation of 3D imaging systems used in a wide range of critical applications.

Physical Measurement Laboratory

Awards

Steven Jefferts Receives 2019 Rabi Award

Kristan Corwin Receives the 5 Sigma Physicist Award

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

2019 IEEE Fellow - Kin Ping (Charles) Cheung

2018 - Gold Medal Award---Randolph Elmquist, Dean G. Jarrett, George Robert Jones, Jr., Marlin E. Kraft, Alireza Panna, Shamith Payagala, Albert Rigosi

2018 - Silver Medal Award---José Aumentado, Konrad Lehnert, Raymond Simmonds, John Teufel

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

2018 - Silver Medal Award---Nicholas Paulter, Lawrence Hudson, Ronald Tosh

2018 - Silver Medal Award---Joseph Boone, William Jenkinson, Joseph Luptak, Aaron Fein, Judah Levine, Jeffrey Sherman

2018 - Edward Uhler Condon Award---Pavel Kabos, T. Mitch Wallis

2018 - Distinguished Career Award---John Lowe

2018 - Judson C. French Award---Catherine Cooksey, Thomas A. Germer, Heather J. Patrick, Clarence J. Zarobila

2018 - Judson C. French Award---John J. Curry, George Eppeldauer, Jeanne Houston, Vyacheslav Podobedov, Ping-Shine Shaw, Howard Yoon

2018 - B. Stephen Carpenter Award---Michael Lombardi

2018 - Edward Bennett Rosa Award---Bala Muralikrishnan, Prem Rachakonda, Meghan Shilling, Roger Bostelman, Geraldine Cheok, Joseph Falco, Marek Franaszek, Jeremy Marvel, Kamel Saidi, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud

2018 - William P. Slichter Award---B. Robert Ilic

2018 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Wyatt Miller

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Samuel M. Stavis

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---John Barton

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Brian Alberding, Joshua Hadler, Edwin Heilweil

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Thomas R. Gentile

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Dustin Hite, Dietrich Leibfried, David Pappas, Andrew Wilson

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---David W. Allen, Catherine Cooksey, Benjamin Tsai

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

2018 - Ron Brown Excellence in Innovation Award---Thomas Perkins

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