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Office of the Director

Awards

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2018 - Arthur S. Flemming Award---Ralph Jimenez

For his leadership in creating new tools to observe and measure the internal chemistry and biology of individual living cells in real time, accelerating previous studies by factors of 10,000 and more.

2018 - Gold Medal Award---John Lehman, Michelle Stephens, Nathan Tomlin, Igor Vayshenker, Christopher Yung

For revolutionizing optical power metrology through the world's first primary fiber-based standard to support telecommunications, sensing and defense.

2018 - Distinguished Career Award---John Lowe

For decades of exceptional and dedicated service in supporting a broad range of NIST activities as a world-class scientist, manager, and ambassador.

2018 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Wyatt Miller

For advancing surface-temperature metrology and its real-world applications, including a novel web-based shipment-monitoring system.

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Thomas Forbes, Edward Sisco

For extraordinary innovation in the development of new mass-spectrometric techniques for the chemical analysis of emerging explosives threats.

2018 - Silver Medal Award---James Filla, Mohammad Khalil, Joey Boyd, Aaron Johnson, Iosif Shinder

For advancing gas-flow measurement science to enable smokestack emissions measurements that are accurate, traceable, and comparable internationally.

2018 - Jacob Rabinow Applied Research Award---Michael Donahue, Donald Porter

For enabling widespread use of nanomagnetic modeling and simulation to enhance U.S. innovation in research and product development.

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Gilberto Castillo, José Colucci-Rios, Brian Lagas, Adelwiza Lequin, Anne-Louise Marquis, J. Michael Simpson, Gloria Solomon, Kenneth P. Voytek, Jedd Vertman

For expedited, cross-agency funding and program support of MEP Centers to assist manufacturers impacted by hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria.

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---John Barton

For leading the development of legal metrology standards for "app-based" transportation-network measurement systems used in ride-hailing applications.

2018 - Edward Uhler Condon Award---Pavel Kabos, T. Mitch Wallis

For making a complex topic accessible through their foundational textbook on measurement techniques for radio frequency nanoelectronics.

2018 - George A. Uriano Award---Patricia R. Toth

For leadership in the publication of NIST Handbook 162 to assist U.S. manufacturers with implementing critical cybersecurity protections.

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---David Cypher, Wesley Garey, Jason Kahn, Richard Rouil, Yishen Sun, Christopher Walton

For the standardization of mission-critical Voice over Long Term Evolution (VoLTE) in support of public-safety communications and the First Responder Network.

Fischer, Bailey, Eastman, Schaefer, Scott

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Dawn Bailey, Mary Eastman, Barbara Fischer, Christine Schaefer, LouAnn Scott

For developing, authoring, and maintaining Blogrige, the official blog of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program.

2018 - Gold Medal Award---Thomas Perkins

For significantly advancing biomedical understanding of crucial proteins by creating the world's best biological atomic force microscope.

2018 - Distinguished Career Award---Mike Martin

For outstanding service in developing and implementing NIST's corporate leadership development program, creating a legacy of effective and engaged NIST leaders.

2018 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Laurell R. Phillips, Jr.

For exceptional administrative support of MML's Chemical Sciences Division during a period of diminished staffing.

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---William A. Kimes, James E. Maslar, Brent A. Sperling

For development and application of in-situ optical methods that increase quality and yield during nanoelectronic device manufacturing.

2018 - Silver Medal Award---José Aumentado, Konrad Lehnert, Raymond Simmonds, John Teufel

For creating the fundamental, enabling components of future quantum networks that will process information much faster than current computer networks.

Podobedov, Curry, Houston, Eppeldauer, Yoon, Shaw

2018 - Judson C. French Award---John J. Curry, George Eppeldauer, Jeanne Houston, Vyacheslav Podobedov, Ping-Shine Shaw, Howard Yoon

For realizing and disseminating the best-in-the-world capability for absolute calibration of optical detectors from the visible to the far infrared.