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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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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.

Elham Tabassi - 2016 Women in Biometrics Award

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...

Phillips Selected as Fellow of AOAC International

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...

2016 AIP Broadcast and New Media Award Winner

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...

MRI Project wins 2016 DoC Gold Medal

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...

2016 Highly Cited Researchers - Jun Ye and Deborah Jin

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...

2016 Governor’s Award - Cindy Regal and Konrad Lehnert

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...

IEEE Technical Award - Darine Haddad

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...

2016 APS Fellow - John Kitching

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.

Sieber Receives ASTM Award of Merit

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...

2016 PECASE - 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.
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