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Awards Received by NIST Employees
Notice: This collection is not comprehensive. Most awards included are recent. We are working to make the site more complete.
Ye is one of approximately 6,400 researchers across 21 fields and of 179 physicists awarded in 2020. The Highly Cited Researcher award is given to researchers that have highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1 percent based on the field and year as...
Nik Hrabe of the Fatigue and Fracture Group (647.02) in the Applied Chemicals and Materials Division has been selected to receive the ASTM International Additive Manufacturing Young Professional Award for leadership of standards development in the...
NIST's social media video featuring research engineer Matt Staymate’s visualizations of air flow and face coverings received a Shorty Award for Best in Public Health and was a finalist for Best in Government & Politics. The Shorty Awards honor the...
Recognizing the true pioneers in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science™
Recognizing the true pioneers in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science™
LaKesha has contributed to STEM outreach engagement throughout her academic and professional career. She participates in hands-on demonstrations, working with younger children. As an Engineering Technician at the National Institute of Standards and...
A joint second place prize between Amit and Dr. Shuo Sun from UC Boulder: Their research efforts are focused on developing novel measurement methods and nanofabrication techniques to study fundamental light-matter interaction in nanophotonic devices...
Established in 2004, the Hall of Distinction celebrates individuals who have made significant contributions to science, business, academia, or government as well as to their community. This honor is based on Winnie’s career accomplishments...
For contributions using quantum properties of light and matter for applications ranging from extremely sensitive sensors to quantum information processing.
For pioneering contributions to quantum science, particularly quantum control and measurement of mechanical oscillators, and sub-quantum limited measurement with applications to dark matter searches.
The paper "1 GHz Waveform Synthesis with Josephson Junction Arrays", IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity vol. 30, no. 3, article number 1400111, has been selected by the editors to receive the 2019 Van Duzer Prize. The work in this paper...
This International Organization of Legal Metrology (OIML) Letter of Appreciation recognizes Ralph Richter for his outstanding contribution and leadership in the revision of OIML R 117 ( Dynamic measuring systems for liquids other than water), the...
Election to the ASPE College of Fellows is a highly prestigious honor that is intended to recognize and honor those exceptional members of the Society who have made outstanding contributions to the art and practice of Precision Engineering through...
Recognized as one of the nation’s premier cybersecurity experts, having helped develop the first commercially available encryption standards as well as state-of-the-art guidelines for government and industry to prevent, detect and respond to...
June Lau of NIST, Yimea Zhu of Brookhaven National Lab, and Chunguang Jing, Eric Montgomery, Yubin Zhao, Wade Rush, Ao Liu, and Ilya Ponomarev of Euclid Labs are recognized for a relatively inexpensive pulsing device that converts an existing...
This honor was bestowed upon Rob for his many contributions to HL7 for over a decade and a half, particularly regarding his leadership and advancement of conformance and testing of HL7 standards – which are the most widely used healthcare standards...
For novel developments in neutron radiography and tomography leading to significant advances in lithium-ion batteries, hydrogen fuel cells, concretes, and additive manufacturing; and for the invention of simultaneous neutron/x-ray imaging for...
For the pioneering development of high-quantum-efficiency photon detectors and of number-resolving photon detectors; and for the application of those detectors to experiments in quantum optics, quantum information, and investigations of the...
For contributions to the understanding, design, and control of quantum many-body atomic, molecular, and optical systems and their applications to phase transitions, entanglement generation and propagation, synthetic magnetism, and quantum memory and...
For many contributions to the development of photoemission, Auger electron spectroscopy, X-ray standing wave, and soft X-ray emission spectroscopy and outstanding leadership to AVS.