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Physical Measurement Laboratory

Awards

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2020 W. G. Cady Award - Craig Nelson

For leadership in the design and development of state-of-the-art low noise oscillators and phase noise measurement systems. Learn More

2019 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Michael Braine

For developing a 24/7 lab environmental monitoring system that protects expensive equipment by alerting staff to potential problems in real time.

2019 - Bronze Medal Award---Veronika Szalai

For partnering with industry to reduce the cost and complexity of applying electron paramagnetic resonance to a broad range of measurement challenges

2019 - Gold Medal Award---Nolan Brandenburg, Mark Luce, Jay Hendricks, Jacob Ricker

For exceptional and innovative encasement design, enabling preservation of multiple documents, from the US Bill of Rights to the Emancipation Proclamation.

2019 - Bronze Medal Award---Val Miller

For leading a national calibration laboratory proficiency testing (PT) program for state weights and measures and industry laboratories

2019 - Jacob Rabinow Applied Research Award---Jabez McClelland

For innovations in laser cooling of atoms resulting in the commercialization of new methods for performing ion beam fabrication and microscopy.

Back Row: Sandel, Crews, Drapela, Oliver, Blumer, Holiday Front Row: Bergren, Potts, Schlatter

2019 - Bronze Medal Award---Charles E. Oliver, Katie Schlatter, Tiffany Atchison, Michael Blumer, Ray Holiday, Jody Sandel, Norman Bergren, Margaret Crews, Tim Drapela, Petrina Potts

For developing and implementing a central ordering and delivery program for compressed gases and liquid cryogens for the NIST Boulder campus.

2019 - Silver Medal Award---Denis Bergeron, Jerome LaRosa, Hans Pieter Mumm, Svetlana Nour, Mark A. Tyra

For advancing nuclear reactor monitoring and nuclear nonproliferation by developing a novel, first-of-a-kind detector for measuring antineutrinos.

Stocker, Zheng, Renegar, Soons, Thompson

2019 - Bronze Medal Award---Robert M. Thompson, Thomas B. Renegar, Johannes A. Soons, Michael T. Stocker, Xiaoyu A. Zheng

For novel contributions to the field of forensics by digitally preserving ballistic evidence from the John F. Kennedy assassination, for the benefit of future generations.

2019 - Judson C. French Award---David Eardley, Ronaldo Minniti

The team is recognized for designing and installing a new therapy-level Co-60 gamma-ray dosimetry calibration facility.

2019 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Varun Verma

For pioneering devices that detect and count single particles of light, and for serving the community through professional leadership, mentoring and helping others.

2019 - Bronze Medal Award---Gillian Nave

For providing ultraprecise spectroscopic benchmarks in support of U.S. industry and research, including the search for extraterrestrial planets

2019 - Distinguished Career Award---Theodore Doiron

For sustained and lasting contributions to NIST and the next generation of practitioners in the field of precision dimensional metrology.

2019 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Franklyn Quinlan

For generating the world’s most stable electromagnetic signals and making a 10,000-fold improvement in the ability to measure those signals.

2019 - Bronze Medal Award---Andrea Centrone

For pioneering a novel tool that provides first-ever multi-modal imaging of significant biomolecules such as those relevant to Alzheimer's disease

2019 - Presidential Rank Award---Ian Spielman

For his pioneering work and leadership in developing quantum simulation techniques to investigate natural phenomena too complex for traditional mathematical computation.

2019 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Alexey Gorshkov

For his groundbreaking research in quantum science, which included manipulating individual light particles to strongly interact.

2019 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Kathryn Keenan

For development of a world-first suite of standards for magnetic resonance imaging and providing leadership in the medical and scientific community through technology transfer and mentoring.

2019 - Bronze Medal Award---Matthew Pufall, William Rippard, Stephen Russek, Michael Schneider

For demonstrating novel magnetic-superconducting devices that enable dramatic power and speed improvements in neuromorphic computing

Back Row: Sherman, Beloy, Swann, Hume, Newbury, Ludlow Front Row: Leibrandt, Sinclair

2019 - Gold Medal Award---Kyle Beloy, David Hume, David Leibrandt, Andrew Ludlow, Nathan Newbury, Jeffrey Sherman, Laura Sinclair, William Swann, Jun Ye

For creating and networking the world's best optical atomic clocks for a 100-fold improvement in precision timekeeping over the state of the art.