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.

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.

Keith Stouffer – Suzanne Lightman – Victoria Pillitteri

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lili Wang – Linhua Tian – Paul DeRose

John Jendzurski

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

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.

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