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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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
He's recognized 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 distribution.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
He uses highly controlled ultracold atoms, trapped in crystals of laser light, to create quantum materials that shed light on problems in solid-state physics.
The award citation states that through the development of the BEES software tool, Bobbie has significantly advanced the state-of-the-art of practices for sustainability measurement of building materials and bio-based products across the Federal...
Marla Dowell, Group Leader of the Sources and Detector Group, was recognized for her sustained exceptional leadership as a supervisory physicist of a world-leading laser metrology program. Dr. Dowell leads the most comprehensive program in laser...
From JQI press release: "By shining laser light and applying an external magnetic field with a gradient on a gas of neutral atoms in an ultracold state of matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, Spielman and his colleagues have synthesized an...
For significant contributions to the relativistic theory of highly-charged ions and collisional-radiative modeling, and through creation of online codes and databases for the atomic physics community.
Dr. DeRose received ASTM International Award of Appreciation for recognition of his outstanding service in the development of E2719 Standard Guide for Fluorescence – Instrument Calibration and Qualification. For more on his research.
For pioneering contributions in neutron interferometry, imaging and detection, with applications ranging from precise measurements of neutron scattering lengths to the imaging of flows in hydrogen fuel cells.
For his pioneering contributions to the field of biophysics including the detection, identification, characterization and quantification of biological and chemical polymers, and for the development of a new method for protein structure determination.
For his fundamental contributions to the experimental studies of the spin-torque oscillators, their interactions, and collective states, and for the development of new quantitative experimental methods for the investigation of magnetization dynamics...