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Awards Received by NIST Employees

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Paul Witherell was accepted into the ASME 2016-2017 Early Career Leadership Intern Program to Serve Engineering

Recognized as a promising early career and future leader in mechanical engineering

IEEE Magnetics Society 2016 Distinguished Service Award - Ron Goldfarb

The award was given “for two decades of leadership in advancing the quality and operational excellence of Magnetics Society and IEEE publications.”

2016 IEEE Fellow - Thomas Silva

For contributions to the understanding and applications of magnetization dynamics.

2015 Presidential Rank Award - Jun Ye

Jun Ye's research advances the frontier of light-matter interaction and focuses on precision measurement, quantum physics and ultracold matter, optical frequency metrology, and ultrafast science.

2015 - Gold Medal Award---Steven Jefferts, Thomas Heavner

For extraordinary scientific achievement in creating and operating the NIST-F2 atomic clock, the world’s most accurate official time and frequency standard.

2015 - Bronze Medal Award---James Moyer, Douglas Ogg, Michael Rinehart

For the mechanical design, installation, and alignment of a complex neutron analyzer and detection system on the NCNR Multi-Axis Crystal Spectrometer.

2015 Allen V. Astin Award - David A. Howe, Craig Nelson, and Archita Hati

For developing a world-leading program of phase noise research and measurement services to support industry and national priorities.

2015 - Bronze Medal Award---Allen R. Goldstein

For accelerating the integration of renewable energy into the power grid through establishing an international accreditation and test program.

Joseph Reader, Yuri Ralchenko and Alexander Kramida

2015 French Award

The Judson C. French Award, first presented in 2000, is granted for significant improvement in products delivered directly to industry, including new or improved NIST calibration services, Standard Reference Materials, and Standard Reference...

2015 Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award - John Kitching

The award was given "for pioneering work on chip-scale atomic sensors and devices."

MRI Standards Project wins 2015 CO-LABS Governor's Award

Michael Boss, Katy Keenan, Stephen Russek and Karl Stupic are recognized for advancing the forefront of biomedical imaging by developing a broad suite of calibration “phantoms” to enable quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the...

2015 Highly Cited Researchers - Jun Ye and Deborah Jin

The Thomas Reuters website states, "Highly Cited Researchers 2015 represents some of world’s most influential scientific minds. About three thousand researchers earned this distinction by writing the greatest number of reports officially designated...

2015 Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine - Michael Mitch

Michael Mitch, Leader of the Dosimetry Group of the Radiation Physics Division, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). A member of the AAPM since 2000, Mitch represents NIST on several committees...

2016 Joseph F. Keithley Award - Samuel Benz

Samuel Benz, of PML's Optoelectronics and Photonics Division, has received the 2016 Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and Measurement from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for outstanding contributions in...

2015 Young Scientist Prize - Gretchen Campbell

The 2015 IUPAP Young Scientist prize for the Commission on Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (C15) was awarded Dr Gretchen K Campbell, a Fellow, Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Maryland...

2015 Fellow of the American Vacuum Society - Jay Hendricks

Hendricks was cited for "exceptional contributions to vacuum science and for developing new and revolutionary vacuum standards and methods through promoting excellence in vacuum measurement as well as being a mentor to early career scientists and...

2015 Fulbright fellowship - Glenn Solomon

NIST has a long-standing program in quantum information science that includes creating coherence in quantum dots — a type of nanostructure — that can lead to everything from single photon sources to the core components of quantum computer — a so...

2015 IEEE Fellow - Paul D. Hale

Paul D. Hale has been named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to the metrology of high-speed electronic and optoelectronic devices.

Boss wins 2015 FLC Tech Transfer award

Michael Boss received the FLC Tech Transfer Award for creating MRI calibration standards that have been adopted in multi-site clinical trials in the US and Europe to study the effects of traumatic brain injury.

2014 Invention of the Year Nominee: A New Single-Photon Avalanche Diode System for LIDAR and Quantum Cryptography

UMD researchers have developed a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) detection system that is so sensitive that it detects photons that arrive at times well before a readout gate is applied, hence increasing the system’s detection duty cycle. This...