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Physical Measurement Laboratory

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2023 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Gail Griffin-Ferris

For ensuring the successful administration of the entire NIST Quantum Measurement Division during and after the COVID-19 pandemic challenges

2023 - Bronze Medal Award---Steven Brown, John Woodward, Steven Grantham, Thomas C. Larason, Stephen Maxwell, Clarence Zarobila

For advancing the accurate space-based measurement of the moon's optical radiation for use in the on-orbit calibration of Earth-sensing satellites.

2023 - Silver Medal Award---Jason Gorman, Thomas LeBrun, David Long, Benjamin Reschovsky

For the development of highly accurate and sensitive chip-scale optomechanical accelerometers for applications in transportation and defense.

2023 - Gold Medal Award---John Lehman, Michelle Stephens, Nathan Tomlin, Christopher Yung

For the invention of compact, durable, and inexpensive sensors that are providing highly accurate space-based measurements of the Sun's radiation.

2023 - Gold Medal Award---Greg Cooksey, Paul Patrone, Anthony Kearsley, Matthew DiSalvo

For the invention of serial cytometry, a revolutionary technology for cancer diagnostics and therapeutic evaluation.

2023 - Gold Medal Award---John Jones II, Karen Reczek, Allison Getz, Donna Sirk, Barbara Guttman, Marcela Najarro, Alan Zheng, Will Guthrie, John Butler

For extraordinary national leadership in improving the scientific quality of forensic science practices through standards development.

2023 - Ron Brown Excellence in Innovation Award---Greg Cooksey, Paul Patrone, Anthony Kearsley, Matthew DiSalvo

For pioneering real-time, cell-by-cell analysis for early cancer diagnosis, the evaluation of novel therapeutics, and accurate clinical decisions

2023 - Bronze Medal Award---W. Bertrand (Randy) Doriese, Carl Reintsema

For the development of a cryogenic camera based on superconducting sensors and for its first use in space to obtain X-ray images of a supernova remnant.

Stephen Eckel, James Fedchak, Daniel Barker, Nikolai Klimov, Julia Scherschligt

2023 - Bronze Medal Award---Daniel Barker, Stephen Eckel, James Fedchak, Nikolai Klimov, Julia Scherschligt, Eite Tiesinga

For demonstrating the portable Cold Atom Vacuum Standard (pCAVS), the world’s first deployable absolute sensor of ultra-high vacuum.

2023 - Bronze Medal Award---Martin Stevens, Ralph Jimenez, Charles H. Camp Jr., Thomas Gerrits

For refuting published claims about quantum-enhanced microscopy by careful measurements of molecular absorption of photon pairs.

2023 - Bronze Medal Award---Michael Huber

For developing and applying a novel neutron interferometry method that revolutionizes knowledge of three important fundamental physical quantities.

2023 - Safety Award---Larry Lucas, Jerome La Rosa, Manuel Mejias, James Adams

For eliminating an extreme risk to NIST's safety and institutional reputation by eradicating a dangerous legacy solution of plutonium.

2023 - William P. Slichter Award---Anthony Kotula, Kalman Migler, Angela Hight Walker

For partnering with industry to develop the rheo-Raman microscope and solve key issues with manufacturing of advanced polymers and other soft matter.

2023 - Edward Bennett Rosa Award---Howard Yoon, Vladimir Khromchenko

For the development of novel infrared radiometers and radiation thermometers to support critical calibration needs of the U.S. Air Force and Army.

2023 - Samuel Wesley Stratton Award---Alexey Gorshkov

For pioneering contributions to the understanding and control of large quantum systems, with applications in quantum computers, sensors, and networks.

2023 - Arthur S. Flemming Award---Michael Huber

Recognized for his application of neutrons to fundamental problems in basic science.

Photo of John Bollinger, Distinguished Career awardee

2023 - Dr. Willie E. May Award for Distinguished Career at NIST---John Bollinger

For a career of research in trapped-ion metrology applied to atomic clocks and quantum manipulation, computation, and simulation.

2023 - Bronze Medal Award---Jeffrey Shainline, Jeffrey Chiles, Adam McCaughan, Sonia Buckley, Adriana Lita, Anna Fox, John Biesecker, Manuel Castellanos-Beltran, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam

For the monolithic integration of superconducting single-photon detectors with Josephson junctions for advanced computing and single-photon metrology.

2023 - Safety Award---Bradley Damazo

For identifying an unrecognized confined-space toxic-gas hazard and developing a thorough and efficient safety protocol for entering the space.

2023 - Allen V. Astin Measurement Science Award---Jeff Sherman, Ladan Arissian, Roger Brown , Bijunath Patla

For exceptional performance and dedication in the realization and dissemination of the national standard of frequency, time, and time interval.

2023 - B. Stephen Carpenter Award---Ralph Richter

For leadership in international legal metrology standards to ensure a fair and equitable marketplace for global industrial commodities.

2023 - Bronze Medal Award---Vladimir Aksyuk, Andrea Centrone

For developing nanophotonic atomic force microscope transducers that provide high bandwidth and sensitivity needed for nanostructure metrology.

2023 - Edward Uhler Condon Award---Gary Zabow

For authorship of "Reflow Transfer for Conformal Three-Dimensional Microprinting," on a novel method to deposit microstructures on complex surfaces.

2023 - George A. Uriano Award---Anita Balachandra, David Gundlach, Paul Hale, Kevin Jurrens, R. Joseph Kline, Timothy McBride, Sanjay Rekhi, David Seiler, Sivaraj Shyam-Sunder, Ndubuisi George Orji

For positioning NIST and DOC to successfully implement core CHIPS for America Act programs to revitalize U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing.

Overview of the kilopixel thermally coupled imager (TCI)

2023 APL Rising Stars Collection - Adam McCaughan, Bakhrom Oripov and Sae Woo Nam

The Rising Stars Collection features notable APL papers by emerging investigators. These papers were identified by the editors and Rising Stars Award selection committee as particularly outstanding among the many excellent candidates for the award...

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