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2016 Allen V. Astin Measurement Science Award

Stambaugh, Abbott, Kubarych, Schlamminger, Benck, Mulhern, Newell, Chao

Stambaugh, Abbott, Kubarych, Schlamminger, Benck, Mulhern, Newell, Chao

AWARD CITATION

The group is recognized for creating a mise en pratique for mass, essentially a suite of procedures, standards, and instruments that will replace the US Standard Kilogram as a means of disseminating mass. The mise en pratique encompasses all aspects of US mass infrastructure from science to service: from accurately measuring the Planck constant with a watt balance, to deriving a standard mass in vacuum from the Planck constant, to transporting the standard to instruments for practical use in air. In a multimillion-dollar effort spanning 4 years, the team delivered this complex new national infrastructure on time for the international Pilot Study of the New Kilogram, the first-ever key comparison of mass derived by different national metrology institutes from fundamental constants.

GROUP AWARD

Patrick Abbott

Physicist
Physical Measurement Laboratory

Eric Benck

Physicist
Physical Measurement Laboratory

Zeina Kubarych

Supervisory Physicist
Physical Measurement Laboratory

Edward Mulhern

Mechanical Engineer
Physical Measurement Laboratory

Corey Stambaugh

Physicist
Physical Measurement Laboratory

Leon Chao

Mechanical Engineer
Physical Measurement Laboratory, Quantum Measurement Division

David Newell

Physicist
Physical Measurement Laboratory

Stephan Schlamminger

Supervisory Physicist
Physical Measurement Laboratory