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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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AIAG award

For substantial contribution and leadership on behalf of the automotive industry.

Sae Woo Nam Receives 2008 Arthur S. Flemming Award

Sae Woo Nam, Leader of the Quantum Information and Terahertz Technology Project in the Optoelectronics Division of EEEL, was recognized with the 2008 Arthus S. Flemming Award in Applied Science, Engineering, and Mathematics for his pioneering...

2009 JARI Enterprise Award - Lawrence T. Hudson

He received the award for outstanding progress and future promise in the area of X-ray diffraction spectroscopy of highly-charged ions and wavelength standardization, as well as service to the scientific and wider community through editorship and...

2008 Arthur Flemming Award - Steve Stranick

Dr. Stranick received the Arthur S. Flemming Award in Basic Science for his innovations in chemical imaging microscopy techniques below the diffraction limit of light. For more on his research.

2009 Robert Fairer Award - Anne Plant

Dr. Plant received the Robert E. Fairer Award for her work on developing world standards for the medical community. For more on her research, see her NIST staff profile page.

2009 Hevesy Medal - Richard Lindstrom

Dr. Lindstrom received the George Hevesy Award for his exceptional and comprehensive contributions to radioanalytical measurement science, namely prompt gamma-ray activation analysis and gamma-ray spectrometry, and for his educational and...

2009 Hillebrand Award - Michael Kurylo

Dr. Kurylo is recognized with The Hillebrand Award for his exceptional achievements in the area of stratospheric chemistry including the photochemistry of ozone.

2009 APS Fellow - Thomas Gentile

For his extensive contributions to diverse precision measurements, particularly in the development of neutron spin filters using polarized 3He and in the application of polarized 3He to precision measurements in neutron science.

2009 APS Fellow - David Plusquellic

For seminal contributions to the spectroscopic investigation of the conformational dynamics and hydrogen-bonding interactions of biological molecules.

2009 Microscopy Society of America Fellow - Dale Newbury

Dr. Newbury received the Microscopy Society of America Fellow Award for his seminal contributions to the application of x-ray microanalysis and for the development of Monte Carlo simulation techniques for accurate micro- and nano- analysis.

Eswaran Subrahmanian AAAS Fellow

For distinguished contribution to design theory and methodology and its implications for design support systems & for bridging theory,practice and education in engineering design

Sae Woo Nam Receives 2008 Rabinow Award

Dr. Sae Woo Nam is recognized for the development and application of ground-breaking single photon detectors, which are furthering some of the world's most challenging endeavors including quantum cryptography, quantum computing, the examination of...

Paul Boynton Receives 2008 William P. Slichter Award

Paul Boynton is recognized for his leadership in modern standards and measurement methods for electronic displays, particularly for his industry outreach to disseminate his work. Mr. Boynton is chair of both the Council for Optical Radiation...

2008 APS Fellow - Samuel Benz

For inventing and developing the first Josephson junction array arbitrary waveform synthesizer and using it as a practical quantum-based ac voltage standard.

2008 APS Fellow - Scott Diddams

For major contributions to the development of optical frequency comb technology, and particularly for pioneering demonstrations of frequency combs in optical clocks, high resolution spectroscopy, and tests of basic physics.

2008 APS Fellow - Jeffrey Nico

In recognition of his contributions and leadership in precision measurements and fundamental symmetry tests using cold neutrons, and his contributions to radiochemical determinations of the p-p fusion solar neutrino flux.

2008 APS Fellow - James (Trey) Porto

For seminal studies of ultra-cold atoms in optical lattices with applications to quantum information, many-body physics, and condensed matter models, and for the invention of optical lattice techniques including a super-lattice for patterned loading...
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