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Physical Measurement Laboratory

Radiation Physics Division

Awards

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2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Denis Bergeron, Richard Essex, Ryan Fitzgerald, Jacqueline Mann, Shin Muramoto, Svetlana Nour, Gordon Shaw, R. Michael Verkouteren

For pioneering development of instrumentation and methods to precisely dispense and validate milligram quantities of radioactive liquid samples.

2024 Outstanding Technical Committee Award - Leticia Pibida

TC-45: Radiation and Nuclear Instrumentation and Systems

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

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

2022 Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine - Ronald Tosh

Dr. Ronald Tosh, Physicist in the Dosimetry Group of the Radiation Physics Division, PML, has been elected Fellow of the American

2020 Distinguished Associate Award - Csilla Szabo-Foster

For enabling rapid and accurate x-ray analysis of materials and higher nuclear security through sensor breakthroughs and world's best

2020 - Silver Medal Award---Elias Baltic, Daniel Hussey, David Jacobson, Jacob LaManna

For creating a revolutionary neutron imaging system, solving longstanding problems in concrete degradation and material science by real-time analysis.

2020 - Bronze Medal Award---Maynard Scott Dewey

For developing and carrying out the world’s most precise measurement of the antineutrino-electron correlation coefficient in neutron beta decay.

2020 - Bronze Medal Award---Svetlana Nour, Jerome LaRosa

For establishing worldwide confidence in advanced techniques to quantify radioactive contamination in food following a radiological disaster.

2020 - Bronze Medal Award---Denis Bergeron, Jeffrey Cessna, Ryan Fitzgerald, Dean Jarrett, Shamith Payagala, Neil M. Zimmerman

For developing an SI-traceable self-calibrating system for radioactivity measurement services that reduces the need to handle radioactive sources.

2020 - Silver Medal Award---Douglas Bennett, John Mates, Galen O'Neil, Daniel Schmidt, Daniel Swetz, Joel Ullom, Leila Vale, James Cline, Lawrence Hudson, Marcus Mendenhall

For enabling rapid and accurate X-ray analysis of materials and higher nuclear security through sensor breakthroughs and the world’s best reference data.

2020 APS Fellow - Daniel S. Hussey

For novel developments in neutron radiography and tomography leading to significant advances in lithium-ion batteries, hydrogen fuel cells

2019 - Judson C. French Award---David Eardley, Ronaldo Minniti

The team is recognized for designing and installing a new therapy-level Co-60 gamma-ray dosimetry calibration facility.

2019 - Silver Medal Award---Denis Bergeron, Jerome LaRosa, Hans Pieter Mumm, Svetlana Nour, Mark A. Tyra

For advancing nuclear reactor monitoring and nuclear nonproliferation by developing a novel, first-of-a-kind detector for measuring antineutrinos.

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

For groundbreaking advances in neutron spin-control tools and methods which are now routinely used around the world to advance material science.

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.

2017 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Elias Baltic

For technical excellence and leadership in the development and operation of NIST neutron imaging facilities and advancing core metrology programs.

2017 APS Fellow - Maynard (Scott) Dewey

For absolute measurements in neutron physics and ultra-high resolution gamma spectroscopy.

2016 - Arthur S. Flemming Award---Daniel Hussey

For pioneering contributions in neutron imaging, including the development of a highly sensitive neutron phase imaging technique and the demonstration of the world's first practical neutron microscope.

Zimmerman, Cessna, Bergeron, King, Pibida

2016 - William P. Slichter Award---Brian E. Zimmerman, Denis E. Bergeron, Jeffrey T. Cessna, Lynne E. King, Leticia Pibida

For partnering with industry to co-develop and disseminate SI-traceable nuclear medicine imaging phantoms, now being shipped with new PET scanners.