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National Institute of Standards and Technology - 72nd Annual Honor Award Recipients

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Individual Gold Medal – Leadership

Jacob Taylor

For leadership in shaping the Nation’s quantum science agenda, resulting in the National Quantum Initiative Act and its implementation infrastructure.


Group Gold Medal – Scientific/Engineering Achievement

Steven Emmerich – Daniel Greb – Andrew Persily – Brian Polidoro – Stephen Zimmerman

For exceptional scientific research to reduce the safety risks associated with carbon monoxide emissions from portable emergency generators.


Group Gold Medal – Scientific/Engineering Achievement

Keith Stouffer – Suzanne Lightman – Victoria Pillitteri

For development of internationally adopted cybersecurity guidelines and tools that protect critical infrastructure and critical industrial processes.


Group Gold Medal – Scientific/Engineering Achievement

Patrick Grother – Carina Hahn – Kayee Hanaoka – Mei Lee Ngan – P. Jonathon Phillips – Amy Yates

For groundbreaking measurements and standards for algorithms that have transformed face recognition technologies.


Group Gold Medal – Scientific/Engineering Achievement

Nancy Lin – Sandra Da Silva – James Filliben – Lindsay Harris – Zvi Kelman – Steven Lund – Nathanael Olson – Jennifer Verkouteren

For developing a suite of standards including the first NIST living reference material to strengthen the Nation’s response to potential biothreats.


Group Gold Medal – Scientific/Engineering Achievement

John Barker – Jean Philippe Chabot – Steven Kline – Nicholas Maliszewskyj – Andrew Malone – James Moyer – Douglas Ogg – Daniel Ogg – Stephen Pheiffer – Thuan Thai

For the development of a very small angle neutron scattering instrument giving unprecedented structural information on the nano to meso length scales.


Group Gold Medal – Scientific/Engineering Achievement

Ian Coddington – Kevin Cossel – Nathan Newbury – William Swann – Eleanor Waxman

For development and translation of ultra-precise gas sensing technology with application to the oil/gas industry, defense, and atmospheric science.


Group Gold Medal – Scientific/Engineering Achievement

Scott Glancy – Emanuel Knill – Dietrich Leibfried – Andrew Wilson

For the first demonstration of quantum gate teleportation with trapped ions, showcasing a crucial step toward large-scale quantum computation.


Group Gold Medal – Scientific/Engineering Achievement

Justin Zook – Megan Cleveland – Lindsay Harris – Hari Iyer – Jennifer McDaniel –      Nathanael Olson – Daniel Samarov – Peter Vallone – Justin Wagner

For developing a suite of human genome metrology tools via a NIST-led consortium to make it possible to decipher life’s code with unprecedented rigor.


Group Gold Medal – Scientific/Engineering Achievement

Lili Wang – Linhua Tian – Paul DeRose

For transformative measurement innovations and services to enable the clinical use of flow cytometry and for advancing emerging biotechnologies.


Individual Silver Medal – Scientific/Engineering Achievement

John Jendzurski

For critical improvements to methods and tools for measuring the performance of traffic-speed-enforcement radar.


Group Silver MedalScientific/Engineering Achievement

Samuel MacDavid – Justin Hudson – Daniel Keyser – Andrew Main – Anthony Norbedo – Dagistan Sahin – Brian Wright

For the flawless planning and execution of a never-before-attempted complete replacement of an obsolete, 50-year old, nuclear safety relay system.


Group Silver MedalScientific/Engineering Achievement

Elias Baltic – Daniel Hussey – David Jacobson – Jacob LaManna

For creating a revolutionary neutron imaging system solving longstanding problems in concrete degradation and material science by real-time analysis.


Group Silver Medal – Scientific/Engineering Achievement

Douglas Bennett – James Cline – Lawrence Hudson – John Mates – Marcus Mendenhall –  Galen O'Neil – Daniel Schmidt – Daniel Swetz – Joel Ullom – Leila Vale

For enabling rapid and accurate x-ray analysis of materials and higher nuclear security through sensor breakthroughs and world’s best reference data.