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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.

Learn more about NIST's five Nobel Prize winners

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2017 - Dean of Staff Award---H. S. Lew

Hai S. Lew of EL's Materials and Structural Systems Division has worked at NIST for over 49 years. He joined the National Bureau of Standards in 1968 as a structural research engineer. As Senior Research Engineer, he carries out a broad range of research programs in the fields of structural and earthquake engineering. Dr. Lew has published over 150 articles, papers, and reports on the performance of structures, construction safety, failure investigations, and earthquake engineering.

2017 - Presidential Rank Award---Ron Ross

For his research and leadership in reducing the risk of cybersecurity threats through the creation of NIST's cybersecurity Risk Management Framework (RMF) and the development of a library of supporting NIST technical standards and technical guidelines.

2017 - Gold Medal Award---Katherine Sharpless

For leading the development of interagency open data sharing principles to advance international scientific cooperation that addresses global challenges. This group award was awarded to four staff members from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and one staff member from NIST.

Richard Kuhn - 2017 IEEE Fellow

Congratulations to Richard Kuhn for receiving the 2017 IEEE Fellow Award for contributions to access control and combinatorial test methods.

MML Group Leader Frank DelRio Named ASME Fellow

Group Leader Frank DelRio, leader of the Fatigue and Fracture Group in the Applied Chemicals and Materials Division, has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The ASME Committee of Past Presidents confers the...

2018 IEEE Fellow - David A. Howe

David A. Howe, NIST and Colorado University Professional Research Advisor, from Boulder, Colorado, USA has been named an IEEE Fellow. He is being recognized for contributions to global time synchronization. Over 33 years ago in NIST’s Time...

R&D 100 Award - PhotoForce Project

For the development of a Radiation Pressure Power Meter that enables extremely high continuous laser powers to be measured as the force applied by the laser light reflects from a mirror. And improving on conventional power meters as a truly portable...

Kartik Srinivasan Elected OSA Fellow

Kartik Srinivasan of NIST’s Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) was elected Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA). Dr. Srinivasan received the honor for his outstanding contributions to nanophotonics and quantum optics, including cavity...

Jason Fox Receives Best Oral Presentation Award

The best oral presentation award at the 2017 European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology and American Society for Precision Engineering Special Interest Group Meeting on Dimensional Accuracy and Surface Finish in Additive...

2017 APS Fellow - David Newell

For significant contributions to the least squares adjustments of the fundamental constants of nature from experimental data and to the redefinition of the international system of units.

2017 APS Fellow - Jacob Taylor

For his wide ranging contributions in using quantum properties of light and matter towards developing applications ranging from extreme sensitivity sensors and transducers to quantum information processing.
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