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Physical Measurement Laboratory

Awards

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2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Akobuije Chijioke

For developing the world’s first SI-traceable dynamic-force measurement facility for advanced manufacturing and biomedical applications.

2016 - Safety Award---T. Mitch Wallis

For demonstrable leadership in instilling a culture of safety in the multi-user, multi-laboratory Precision Imaging Facility.

2016 - Arthur S. Flemming Award---Daniel Hussey

For pioneering contributions in neutron imaging, including the development of a highly sensitive neutron phase imaging technique and the demonstration of the world's first practical neutron microscope.

2016 - Judson C. French Award---Ricky Seifarth, Kevin Chesnutwood, Samuel Ho

For restoration and recalibration of the NIST 4.45 meganewton (1 million pounds-force) force standard that serves as the world's largest primary force standard.

2016 - Silver Medal Award---Bryan Barnes, Richard Silver

For pioneering advances in optics by imaging structures 30 times smaller than the wavelength of light with near atomic accuracy.

2016 - Ron Brown Excellence in Innovation Award---Michael A. Boss, Kathryn E. Keenan, Stephen E. Russek, Karl F. Stupic

For creating standards that transformed magnetic resonance imaging into a quantitative tool to diagnose and treat traumatic brain injury and cancer.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Zeeshan Ahmed

For developing an innovative program in silicon and fiber photonic sensors that is enabling new applications for traceable thermodynamic measurements.

2016 - Judson C. French Award---Thomas E. Lipe

For meeting the needs of the aerospace and defense communities by delivering a new generation of accurate and inexpensive ac voltage standards.

2016 - Silver Medal Award---Steven Brown, Keith Lykke

For delivering innovative measurement solutions urgently needed to characterize sensors on NOAA’s latest-generation polar-orbiting weather satellites.

2016 - Gold Medal Award---Michael A. Boss, Kathryn E. Keenan, Stephen E. Russek, Karl F. Stupic

For creating standards that transformed magnetic resonance imaging into a quantitative tool to diagnose and treat traumatic brain injury and cancer.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Gary Zabow

For demonstrating a novel all-magnetic alternative to medical imaging through developing a class of nanoscale radio-frequency probes for diagnostics and treatment.

Zimmerman, Cessna, Bergeron, King, Pibida

2016 - William P. Slichter Award---Brian E. Zimmerman, Denis E. Bergeron, Jeffrey T. Cessna, Lynne E. King, Leticia Pibida

For partnering with industry to co-develop and disseminate SI-traceable nuclear medicine imaging phantoms, now being shipped with new PET scanners.

2016 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Andrew Ludlow

For developing and perfecting optical lattice atomic clocks as the most stable and accurate clocks in the world, which will have future impacts on advanced communications and a broad range of precision measurements far beyond timekeeping.

Sae Woo Nam, Lita, Shalm, Verma, Mirin, Allman, Stevens, Bierhorst, Glancy, Gerrits, Migdall, Bienfang, Wayne

2016 - Gold Medal Award---Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML), Information Technology Laboratory (ITL)

For being the first in nearly 50 years of attempts to achieve a loophole-free test of Bell’s theorem, confirming the predictions of quantum mechanics. Nearly 20 NIST employees and associates from PML and ITL contributed to this achievement.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Ralph Jimenez

For pioneering innovative tools transforming the measurement, characterization and collection of biomolecules and cells for applications in industry, medicine and research.

2016 - Colleagues' Choice Award---David Leibrandt

For the development of open-source hardware and software designs for a state-of-the-art digital servo that is being rapidly adopted by researchers inside and outside of NIST.

2016 - Allen V. Astin Measurement Science Award---Patrick Abbott, Eric Benck, Zeina Kubarych, Edward Mulhern, Corey Stambaugh, Leon Chao, David Newell, Stephan Schlamminger

For establishing a mise en pratique to realize the redefined unit of mass and transfer mass measurements to working standards for dissemination.