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Awards Received by NIST Employees

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2016 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Alex Farrell

For operation, maintenance, and sustained support of the Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility (SURF III) as the primary national ultraviolet radiation standard for critical space programs.

2016 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Nune Atyan

For outstanding Interlibrary Loan customer service in support of the research needs of NIST Gaithersburg staff.

2016 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Michael Lewis

For providing exceptional service to cryogenic flow calibration customers to support custody transfer of cryogenic fluids.

2016 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Weston J. Utsler

For technical service and exceptional attention to customer service.

2016 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Erika White

For outstanding management and continuous improvement of administrative programs within the Office of Acquisition and Agreements Management.

2016 - Allen V. Astin Measurement Science Award---Patrick Abbott, Eric Benck, Zeina Kubarych, Edward Mulhern, Corey Stambaugh, Leon Chao, David Newell, Stephan Schlamminger

For establishing a mise en pratique to realize the redefined unit of mass and transfer mass measurements to working standards for dissemination.

2016 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Adam Creuziger

For developing measurement methods for advanced materials needed by the U.S. automotive industry to manufacture lightweight vehicles, providing metallurgical expertise to government agencies, and contributing to science education and international clean water programs.

2016 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Tara Lovestead

For pioneering research toward simple, inexpensive detection of trace levels of chemicals in vapors with unprecedented sensitivity; for enabling revolutionary advances in homeland security, forensics, and food safety; and for support of learning-based childcare.

2016 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Andrew Ludlow

For developing and perfecting optical lattice atomic clocks as the most stable and accurate clocks in the world, which will have future impacts on advanced communications and a broad range of precision measurements far beyond timekeeping.

Francis, Guerrieri, Novotny, Gordon, Curtin

2016 - Silver Medal Award---David Richard Novotny, Joshua Gordon, Jeffrey Guerrieri, Alexandra Curtin, Michael Francis

For development of the world’s first 100 – 500 GHz antenna near-field scanning range with unprecedented positioning accuracy and geometry flexibility.

2016 - Silver Medal Award---Andrew Allen, Lyle Levine

For establishing a revolutionary new technique for measuring materials microstructure and dynamics over multiple scales and under working conditions.

2016 - Silver Medal Award---Luke Arbogast, Robert Brinson, John Marino

For Nuclear Magnetic Resonance methods that determine the atomic structure of monoclonal antibody biopharmaceuticals with unprecedented resolution.

2016 - Silver Medal Award---Steven Brown, Keith Lykke

For delivering innovative measurement solutions urgently needed to characterize sensors on NOAA’s latest-generation polar-orbiting weather satellites.

2016 - Silver Medal Award---Bryan Barnes, Richard Silver

For pioneering advances in optics by imaging structures 30 times smaller than the wavelength of light with near atomic accuracy.

2016 - Silver Medal Award---Therese McAllister, Erica Kuligowski, Stephen Cauffman, David Butry

For outstanding leadership in developing the Community Resilience Planning Guide, a planning process to help communities increase disaster resilience.

2016 - Silver Medal Award---Elaine Barker, Lawrence Bassham, Shu-jen Chang, Lidong Chen, Quynh Dang, Morris Dworkin, John Kelsey, Rene Peralta, Ray Perlner, Andrew Regenscheid

For outstanding technical achievement in developing the SHA-3 Cryptographic Hash Function Standard through a five-year worldwide competition.

2016 - Silver Medal Award---Robert Keller

For pioneering a revolutionary method that improves the spatial resolution of scanning electron microscope-based electron diffraction by more than an order of magnitude.

2016 - Silver Medal Award---Kevin McGrattan, Randall McDermott, Glenn Forney, Craig Weinschenk, Richard Peacock, Anthony Hamins, Blaza Toman

For development of the Fire Dynamics Simulator fire model, an achievement in the practical application of science to fire-safe design of structures.