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Awards Received by NIST Employees

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Sae Woo Nam Receives DOC Gold Medal

Dr. Nam is recognized for enabling breakthrough advances in ultra-secure quantum communication and quantum metrology by developing the world's best single photon detectors and the only practical detectors capable of counting single units of light...

John Lomax Receives Crittenden Award

Mr. John Lomax is recognized for outstanding service to both NIST and NIST customers above and beyond his normal job duties. Since December 2005, Mr. Lomax has served as the first point of contact for customers of NIST Laser Measurement Services as...

Joshua Hadler Receives NIST Safety Award

Mr. Joshua Hadler is recognized for his outstanding leadership and tireless dedication resulting in dramatically improved laser safety across NIST. Since 2002, Mr. Hadler has been instrumental in devising and executing an effective NIST laser safety...

Nathan Newbury Elected OSA Fellow

Nathan Newbury is recognized for pioneering contributions to thedevelopment of fiber laser frequency combs and their application to spectroscopy, metrology, and LIDAR.

2011 Kyoto Prize - John Cahn

The Inamori Foundation of Japan cited Dr. Cahn's outstanding contribution to alloy materials engineering by the establishment of spinodal decomposition theory. John's major contributions to materials science include developing a fundamental theory...

2011 Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America - Dr. Keith A. Gillis

For devising "acoustic techniques to accurately measure properties of gases and aerosols.

Koch wins Hano Award

Jonathan (Jay) Koch is recognized for his exceptional support of the research objectives at the National Institute of Standards and Technology for nearly two decades. In his role as cleanroom process engineer he has been responsible for the continued...

Sae Woo Nam Elected OSA Fellow

Sae Woo Nam is recognized for seminal contributions to the development of superconducting single-photon detectors and photon-number-resolving detectors and their use in quantum optics experiments by the Optical Society of America.

2011 Nobel Chemistry Prize - Daniel Shechtman

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2011 to Dan Shechtman -Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel "for the discovery of quasicrystals." NIST Colleagues Congratulate Shechtman...

2011 PECASE - Jacob Taylor

Taylor was selected for his pioneering, world-class research on quantum fault tolerance and on the dynamic properties of quantum information devices, and for his commitment to providing educational and research experiences to graduate students...

2011 JARI Medal Award - Ronald Collé

Collé, well-known for his work on establishing one of the first quality assurance programs for radioactivity in the world, was honored for "outstanding contributions to radiation and isotope applications and instrumentation. The medal is awarded for...

2011 Junior BEC Award - Ian Speilman

He received the award for "the first experimental realization of synthetic magnetic fields and spin-orbit couplings in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates." The award was presented at the Bose-Einstein Conference in Sant Feliu, Spain, Sept. 10-16, 2011.

2011 American Chemical Society Fellow - Laurie Locascio

The work they are doing will improve all of our lives as they unleash the power of chemistry to solve global challenges like providing clean water, sufficient food, new energy sources, and cures for disease. But that's not all they're also organizing...

2011 American Chemical Society Fellow - Willie May

2011 Max J. Unis Award - Georgia Harris

For outstanding leadership to the metrology community, for fostering relationships between various metrology organizations, for fostering relationships between various metrology organizations, and championing metrology learning and development...

2011 William A. Wildhack Award - Michael Lombardi

Mike’s contributions to excellence in metrology include his role in helping to develop the world’s first continuous, near real-time international time scale, helping to coordinate official time among 16 national metrology institutes in the SIM region...

2011 Presidential Rank Award - Judah Levine

The award recognizes Levine as a world leader in early applications of lasers for precision measurements, as well as precision time and frequency measurements based on systems of atomic clocks, including use of satellites for time and frequency...

2011 Science Spectrum Trailblazer Award - Pam Chu

Dr. Chu received the Science Spectrum Trailblazer Award for her development of quantitative spectroscopic tools for measurement of trace amounts of gaseous substances. For more on her research.

2010 PECASE - Dave Holbrook

Dr. Holbrook received the PECASE Award for establishing himself as an internationally recognized leader in measurements and analysis of environmental fate and impact of nano-scale material and nanoparticles. Applying NIST's advanced measurement...

2010 Presidential Rank Awards for Senior or Professionals and Executives - Steve Stein

Dr. Stein received the Presidential Rank Award for lifetime contributions in establishing the NIST reference data collections as the premier source of chemical reference data for compound identification in the world.

Boulder Safety Reps Receive 2010 NIST Safety Award

The Boulder Division Safety Representatives are recognized as an organization for their exemplary leadership, teamwork, and dedication in dramatically improving safety practices at the NIST Boulder Laboratories. Over the past two years, the Boulder...

Erich Grossman Receives 2010 Allen V. Astin Award

Dr. Erich Grossman is recognized for establishing the world's first traceable source of millimeter-wave and terahertz power, and for advancing the fields of millimeter-wave and terahertz radiometry, imaging, and spectroscopy. Through his development...