Awards Received by NIST Employees

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PAO, PML Receive 2022 Communicators Award of Excellence for Video Animation

The Communicator Awards is the largest and most competitive awards program honoring creative excellence for communications professionals.

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Physics World 2021 Breakthrough of the Year

The Breakthrough of the Year and the nine runners-up are selected by five Physics World editors from a list of nearly 600 research updates published on the website this year.

2022 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics - Jun Ye

The Breakthrough Prize recognizes groundbreaking discoveries in Fundamental Physics, Life Sciences and Mathematics. The world’s largest science prize, each of the five main Breakthrough Prizes is $3 million.

PLEASE NOTE: This collection is not comprehensive. Most of the awards highlighted in these pages are recent. We are working to make the collection more complete.

2022 - Bronze Medal Award---Duncan McGillivray, Adam Wunderlich, Keith Forsyth, Jack Sklar, Daniel Kuester, Azizollah Kord, Robert Horansky, Eric Nelson, Frank Sanders

For development of a validated test methodology to measure the impact of newly deployed commercial cellular equipment on DoD Test Range systems.

2022 - Bronze Medal Award---Avi Gopstein, Cuong Nguyen, Nelson Hastings, David Wollman

For exemplary leadership and technical contributions in modernizing NIST’s strategic vision for power systems communication and information exchange.

2022 - Bronze Medal Award---Jennifer Helgeson, Priya Lavappa, David Webb

For developing a software tool that supports prioritizing alternative solutions and investment decisions for improving community resilience.

2022 - Bronze Medal Award---Guodong Shao

For the development of an ISO standard that facilitates the implementation of digital twins in manufacturing to improve analysis and decision-making.

Weihua Ji and William E. Wallace Bronze award

2022 - Bronze Medal Award---Weihua Ji, William E. Wallace

For elevating the DEA’s public mass spectral reference library of seized drugs to a high level of reliability with new data quality assurance methods.

Awards Received by NIST Employees

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