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NIST Center for Neutron Research

Awards

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2020 NSSA Fellowship - Paul Butler

For outstanding research on the chemistry and physics of complex fluids and biomembranes, and exceptional service to the neutron community, including major contributions to neutron scattering data acquisition and analysis.

2020 NSSA Service Award - Yamali Hernandez

For her contributions to neutron education and outreach, and development of user laboratories for the benefit of the neutron community.

2020 Lee Osheroff Richardson Science Prize - Sheng Ran

Dr Sheng Ran is recognised for his research on unconventional superconductivity and electronic phases, particularly his seminal contributions to the discovery of exotic and extremely high-field re-entrant superconductivity in uranium ditelluride...

2019 - Bronze Medal Award---Thomas Gnaupel-Herold, Carelyn Campbell, Michael Katz, Eric Lass, Lyle Levine, Mark Stoudt, Maureen Williams, Fan Zhang, Thien Phan

For identifying improved post-processing treatments for additive manufacturing metal alloys that resolve a critical issue of mechanical part failure.

2019 - Bronze Medal Award---Alexander Grutter

For exacting neutron measurements that established the use of antiferromagnets to enhance and control magnetism in topological insulators.

2019 - Samuel Wesley Stratton Award---Wei Zhou

For neutron measurements and modeling that reveal atomic interactions enabling simpler and cheaper methods of chemical separation and energy storage.

2019 - Distinguished Career Award---Donald J. Pierce

For 30 years of innovative engineering contributions to the design of world-leading neutron instruments and beam delivery systems.

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 Fellow of the American Physical Society - William D. Ratcliff

For seminal neutron scattering studies of the magnetic order and spin dynamics in multiferroic materials

2018 - Silver Medal Award---Michael Middleton, Robert Williams

For commissioning a liquid deuterium refrigerator essential to ending highly enriched uranium (HEU) use in the NIST reactor while preserving or enhancing facility performance.

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Daniel J. Flynn, Paul J. Liposky, Anthony J. Norbedo, Ricky P. Sprow

For excellence and perseverance during the planning and execution of the 2017 NCNR reactor outage.

This is a picture of the awardees of the 2018 ASM Howe Medal

2018 Henry Marion Howe Medal

The Authors received the ASM Henry Marion Howe Medal for 2018 for their paper entitled “ Formation of the Ni3Nb δ-Phase in Stress-Relieved Inconel 625 Produced via Laser Powder-Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing."

Paul Neves, U. Maryland and NIST Center for Neutron Research (2018)

2018 Goldwater Scholarship

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2017 - Bronze Medal Award---Boualem Hammouda

For development of the expansive SANS Toolbox, which has benefitted many hundreds of NCNR facility users and is freely available via the web.

2017 - Safety Award---Carol Clark, Eileen Conley, Sharon Wentling

For proactive leadership of the ITL-wide Safety Clean-Up initiative and the early adoption of the OSHE Workplace Inspection Reporting System (WIRS) application.

2017 - Bronze Medal Award---Hui Wu

For producing an entirely new route to synthesizing hydrogen-storage materials for fuel cells based on the complex chemistry of amines and boranes.

2017 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Patrick Connelly

For exceptional service to the NCNR user community, instrument scientists, and NIST laboratories, enabling precision neutron measurement programs.

2017 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Nicholas Butch

For his significant contributions to understanding the interplay of magnetism with superconductivity and revealing observations about superconducting materials by developing new measurement technologies, and his leadership in the neutron-scattering community evidenced by collaborations with government and university partners.