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Physical Measurement Laboratory

Awards

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2022 APS Fellow - Angela R. Hight Walker

For pioneering advancements to the measurement science of Raman spectroscopy for quantifying light-matter interactions of low-dimensional

Elizabeth Benham, Leader, Metric (SI) Program

Elizabeth J. Benham Recognized by the IEEE Standards Association

The IEEE Standards Association is an organization focused on advancing global technologies through the Institute of Electrical and

AVS-NSTD Nanotechnology Recognition Award - Alex Liddle

For his contribution to the AVS, NSTD, and the field of nanotechnology.

2021 Robert H. Goddard Award - Air-LUSI team

NIST air-LUSI team members together with team members from the University of Guelph, McMaster University, University of Maryland Baltimore

2021 Distinguished Associate Award - Marco Pomponio

For outstanding support of the Time and Frequency Division through the development of analog and digital metrology tools.

2022 SPIE George W. Goddard Award in Space and Airborne Optics - Michelle Stephens

Michelle Stephens received the 2022 SPIE George W. Goddard Award in Space and Airborne Optics in recognition of technical innovation

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Dennis Everett

For establishing a new world-class gear measurement capability in response to an urgent request from the U.S. gear manufacturing industry.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Robert Commarota, Cerasela Constantin, Sushama Singh , Simon Frechette , Eric Shirley, Andrea Medina-Smith, Elisabeth Mansfield, Douglas Montgomery, Peter Gehring, Fernando J. Cintron

For development of an IT system to modernize and simplify NIST's publication processes

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Andrei Kolmakov

For pioneering scanning-electron-beam imaging and spectroscopy of materials in gas and liquid media.

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 - Arthur S. Flemming Award---Alexey Gorshkov

Dr. Gorshkov’s creating strong interactions between photons gives a basis for technology using light rather than electrons to perform operations/computations.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Satrick Richardson, Stoyan Jeliazkov, Peter Litwinowicz, Joseph Di Pasquale III

For the timely, cost-effective installation and commissioning of new equipment in the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology facility.

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 - Samuel Wesley Stratton Award---Mark Stiles

For seminal research on theoretical nanoscale magnetism, enabling development of spintronic read heads and nonvolatile magnetic memory for computers.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Chin-wen Chou, David Hume, David Leibrandt, Dietrich Leibfried, Tara Fortier, Scott Diddams, Alejandra Collopy

For breakthrough metrology to control and entangle atomic and molecular ions, providing powerful new approaches to quantum computing and networking.

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 - Judson C. French Award---Vincent Lee, Cameron Miller, Bala Muralikrishnan, Maria Nadal, Benjamin Tsai, Yuqin Zong

For their initiative in overhauling the NIST photometry facility and services to meet the demands of the rapidly growing solid-state lighting industry.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Nikolai N. Klimov, Zeeshan Ahmed, Tobias Herman

For the development of the silicon nanophotonic thermometer as a robust replacement for the widely used, 150-year-old, standard resistance thermometer.

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.