73^rd Annual Honor Award Recipients

Group Gold Medal – Leadership

Kaitlin Boeckl, Lisa Carnahan, Dylan Gilbert, Nakia Grayson, Naomi Lefkovitz, Maihuong Nguyen, Victoria Yan Pillitteri, Adam Sedgewick

For exceptional leadership to develop and drive adoption of a novel framework to manage privacy risk while maximizing the beneficial uses of data.

Individual Gold Medal – Leadership

Carl Williams

For his sustained and visionary leadership, positioning the U.S. as a global leader of the emerging quantum economy.

Organizational Gold Medal – Personal and Professional Excellence

NIST Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program

For exceptional speed, efficiency and transparency in executing CARES Act provisions to support the nation’s manufacturers during a global pandemic.

Group Gold Medal – Scientific/Engineering Achievement

Scott Diddams, Matthew Hummon, B. Robert Ilic, John Kitching, Scott Papp, Kartik Srinivasan, Daron Westly

For their landmark development of the first chip-scale optical clock, supporting the most exacting needs of timing applications in the field.

Group Gold Medal – Scientific/Engineering Achievement

David Deisenroth, Jason Fox, Steven Grantham, Brandon Lane, Jay Nanninga, Jared Tarr, Ho Yeung, Clarence Zarobila

For developing the world-class capabilities of the Additive Manufacturing Metrology Testbed and delivering ground-breaking measurements and data.

Group Gold Medal – Scientific/Engineering Achievement

Elzafir Elsheikh, Sarah Inwood, Sheng Lin-Gibson, Linhua Tian, Lili Wang

For rapidly developing quantitative antibody assays and advancing global standards to underpin development of COVID-19 clinical tests and vaccines.

Group Gold Medal – Scientific/Engineering Achievement

Oliver Borchert, Patrick Gleichmann, Douglas Montgomery, Kotikalapudi Sriram

For developing innovative technologies that resolved critical Internet vulnerabilities and dramatically improved Internet robustness.

Group Gold Medal – Scientific/Engineering Achievement

Megan Cleveland, Hariharan Iyer, Nathanael Olson, Erica Romsos, Stephanie Servetas, Carolyn Steffen, William Valiant, Peter Vallone

For rapid development of NIST’s first RNA research grade test material for detection and diagnostic measurements of COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA.

Group Gold Medal – Scientific/Engineering Achievement

Jason Austermann, James Beall, Gene Hilton, Johannes Hubmayr, Jeffrey Van Lanen, Michael Vissers, Jordan Wheeler

For enabling terahertz and millimeter-wave cameras of unmatched size and sensitivity, now deployed on terrestrial and sub-orbital telescope missions.

Individual Gold Medal – Scientific/Engineering Achievement

Dr. Ellen M. Voorhees

For creating an unprecedented ability to accurately retrieve reliable, contemporaneous information on COVID-19 to fight the 2020 pandemic.

Group Silver Medal – Leadership

Brian Burnham, Edward Cope, William Jenkinson, Christopher Kucko, Ramil Palmaira, Jonathan Repaci, Ruben Rodriguez, Derek Ward

For innovative leadership of cost-effective facilities construction resulting in a state-of-the-art building for world leading scientific advances.

Group Silver Medal – Scientific/Engineering Achievement

Kyle Anderson, Luke Arbogast, Robert Brinson, Frank Delaglio, Ryan Evans, Jeffrey Hudgens, Ioannis Karageorgos, Anthony Kearsley, John Marino

For developing and promoting adoption of methods to determine protein structure that increase patient access to life-saving biosimilar drugs.

Group Silver Medal – Scientific/Engineering Achievement

Martin Green, Joshua Martin, Winnie Wong-Ng

For developing critical thermoelectric standards, instrumentation, and metrologies that enable the commercialization of energy conversion materials.

Group Silver Medal – Scientific/Engineering Achievement

Thomas Gerrits, Robert Horansky, Adriana Lita, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam Marty Stevens, Varun Verma

For advancing quantum communication and imaging applications by creating novel high-efficiency single photon detectors and kilopixel arrays.

Group Silver Medal – Scientific/Engineering Achievement

Jason Blake, Robert Gendler, Blair Heiserman, Murugiah Souppaya, Eric Trapnell, Mark Trapnell, Dylan Yaga

For development of the first free public cybersecurity SCAP 1.3 content for the macOS Catalina (macOS 10.15) and Big Sur (macOS 11).