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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.
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.
For outstanding leadership and management in information technology standards, measurement and research, addressing some of the most complex IT challenges facing the United States.
The Paul Ehrenfest Best Paper Award for Quantum Foundations for the year 2015 was awarded jointly to three publications by groups at the TU Delft (The Netherlands), the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Austria) and the National Institute of Standards...
Elham Tabassi, an electrical engineer in the Information Access Division, was one of four winners for the 2016 Women in Biometrics Award, which was presented by SecureIDNews and the Security Industry Association. She was selected from more than 100...
For continuing contributions and dedication to the development of temperature measurement standards, including effective leadership of subcommittee E20.09 on Digital Contact Thermometers.
MML Research Chemist Melissa Phillips has been selected to be a Fellow of AOAC International. Phillips was selected for this honor in recognition of her dedication, commitment, and meritorious service to the analytical community through the AOAC. She...
The Broadcast and New Media prize goes to Jennifer Lauren Lee for " How to Build Your NIST D.I.Y. Watt Balance," published August 17, 2015 by NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory. Her video’s comedic telling of redefining the kilogram won over the...
The PHM2016 Most Valuable Player award was issued to Dr. Brian Weiss for his contributions to the organization and management of the panel sessions for the conference. Brian organized a record number of panel sessions for the 2016 conference...
The group is recognized for transforming magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) into a quantitative tool for unambiguously diagnosing and monitoring disease by creating a suite of calibration standards, or "phantom," that for the first time enable MRI...
Fellows Jun Ye and Deborah Jin (1968–2016) have been named Highly Cited Researchers for 2016 by Thomson Reuters. Ye and Jin are two of 110 people in the physics category in this year's list. This is a particularly poignant accolade for JILA, as...
The Lehnert/Regal Quantum Machine Team has already racked up some major accomplishments on the path to these eagerly anticipated 21st century technologies. Their accomplishments include (1) the cooling of a drum made of about 1018 aluminum atoms to...
Dr. Jan Obrzut is recognized for his essential contributions to support the development of graphene standardization in IEC/TC 113. As the project leader of IEC/TC 62607-6-4, he and his team developed the first Technical Specification on graphene in...
The Boulder Campus Green Team is being awarded an Energy and Environmental Stewardship Award in the category of recycling for its effort to make the National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder campus a sustainable world class workplace...
For technical leadership in constructing the NIST watt balance and leading a measurement campaign to determine Planck’s constant to 34 parts in 1,000,000,000. In the record time of 5 years, Dr. Haddad assembled an apparatus that can realize the unit...
In 2016, Dr. Tara Lovestead, a Research Chemical Engineer in the Experimental Properties of Fluids Group, was selected to receive the 2013 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the US...
Roger’s work with F45 has been extremely noteworthy, and the Painter Award was especially suited to the proactive mindset he has brought to F45 and the rapid evolution of its standards activity.
This award presentation was primarily based on the team’s pioneering measurements of exotic atom x-ray emission with a TES microcalorimeter spectrometer. These demonstration measurements were performed on pionic helium and carbon and conducted at one...
For pioneering the field of chip-scale atomic devices, and integrating new ideas from atomic and optical physics and microscale engineering to enable development of precision quantum-based microscale sensors for a broad range of quantities.
On February 24, 2016, Ralph M. Paroli, Chairman of the Board of ASTM International, announced that John R. Sieber has been selected as a recipient of the 2016 ASTM International Award of Merit following his nomination by Committee E01 on Analytical...
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.