DOE's Winners Since 1996
Awarded in 2019
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Department of Energy |
Funding Program |
Institution |
Citation |
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| Vivek Agarwal | Office of Nuclear Energy | Idaho National Laboratory | For pioneering research in developing wireless acoustic-based measurement system for real-time in-pile sensing and characterization of reactor operations. A prototype system is capturing the first-ever Advanced Test Reactor acoustic baseline signature and enabling non-intrusive real-time in-pile phenomena monitoring. |
| Félicie Albert | Office of Science (Fusion Energy Sciences) | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | For innovative research advancing the development of Betatron x-rays from laser-wakefield accelerators as a novel probe for characterizing high energy density states of matter and for leadership through mentoring and service to the scientific community. |
| Salvatore Campione | National Nuclear Security Administration | Sandia National Laboratory | For pioneering work in metamaterial and nanophotonic design, capability development in accurately predicting electromagnetic-pulse consequences on the U.S. power grid, and for excellence in engaging with the external scientific community and mentoring junior staff. |
| Daniel Thomas Casey | National Nuclear Security Administration | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Citation: For exceptional contributions and impressive creativity, and innovation in the measurement and understanding of instability and mix for the Initial Confinement Fusion and High Density Physics Programs. He has consistently demonstrated leadership, originality and vision. |
| Alvin K. Cheung | Office of Science (Advanced Scientific Computing Research) | University of Washington | For pioneering research that enables automatic and verifiable correct transformations of legacy stencil computations into domain-specific languages, resulting on optimized code for current and future High-Performance Computing platforms. |
| Jim Ciston | Office of Science (Basic Energy Sciences) | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | For innovative research in developing multimodal electron microscopy techniques to uniquely extract strain, electric field, polarization, and local distortions at nanoscale resolution, and for leadership in extending the impact to inorganic, soft and bio nanomaterials. |
| David Andrew Cullen | Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | For demonstrating exceptional early career research accomplishments that have furthered our understanding of the structural and chemical factors that control the durability and performance of fuel cell materials, which are highlighted through critical collaborations with academia, industry, and government laboratories. |
| Matthew R. Dietrich | Office of Science (Nuclear Physics) | Argonne National Laboratory | For scientific contributions to key publications and leadership in developing highly innovative laser cooling techniques to explore violations of fundamental symmetries of nature through high sensitivity measurements to search for atomic electric dipole moments. |
| Jonathan Ward Engle | Office of Science (Nuclear Physics) | University of Wisconsin | For outstanding scientific leadership in the challenging measurement of high energy neutron excitation functions to provide crucial data for selection of materials and design of accelerator targets to produce radionuclides used in medicine and research and for outstanding contributions in outreach, mentorship, and collaboration. |
| Jacklyn M. Gates | Office of Science (Nuclear Physics) | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | For leadership in pioneering a novel program of experimental research on newly discovered superheavy elements using innovative techniques to measure their masses, nuclear shapes and spectroscopy to test effects predicted by the shell model. |
| Krzysztof Gofryk | Office of Nuclear Energy | Idaho National Laboratory | For breakthrough experimental studies in the physics of actinide materials, particularly for the discovery and theoretical description of unexpected anisotropic behaviors and piezomagnetism in uranium dioxide that could significantly impact nuclear fuel research and improve the way nuclear fuel is developed. |
| Matthew Robert Gomez | National Nuclear Security Administration | Sandia National Laboratories | For exceptional leadership and contributions to innovative research in high energy density physics and leadership of the magneto-initial fusion effort; and for his formidable commitment and exemplar role model to develop a community of scientists and engineers. |
| Erik M. Grumstrup | Office of Science (Basic Energy Sciences) | Montana State University | For innovation and leadership in developing time-resolved, ultrafast, far-field nonlinear microscopy to directly image photogeneration and transport of charge carriers in disordered semiconductors, revealing how macroscopic properties emerge from nanoscale and mesoscale phenomena. |
| Thomas Hartman | Office of Science (High Energy Physics) | Cornell University | For fundamental contributions to the understanding of holographic dualities which suggest that space-time and gravitational interactions are emergent, low-energy phenomena of a more fundamental interaction. |
| Henry Hoffmann | Office of Science (Advanced Scientific Computing Research) | University of Chicago | For exceptionally innovative research on programming systems of power-constrained, complex exascale platforms, which will greatly increase user productivity, performance of High Performance Computing applications, and the rate of new scientific insights. |
| Marylesa Marie Howard | National Nuclear Security Administration | Nevada National Security Site | For the impact, innovation, and recognition of research in support of Stockpile Stewardship as well as outstanding contributions to scientific and mathematical outreach. |
| Abigail Hunter | National Nuclear Security Administration | Los Alamos National Laboratory | For developing and implementing a new brittle mechanics model and modeling dislocation dynamics, two capabilities designed to address questions concerning advanced manufacturing of new materials for the stockpile stewardship program; and for outreach of future STEM professionals. |
| Douglas Ralph Kauffman | Office of Fossil Energy | National Energy Technology Laboratory | For leading efforts that design and create new clean energy materials and processes, developing technologies that convert greenhouse CO2 emissions into valuable fuels, mentoring under-represented STEM students, and training the next-generation of researchers in energy-related fields. |
| Richard Gordon Kraus | National Nuclear Security Administration | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | For advancing the field of materials science, planetary science and material issues that are critical to the nuclear security mission, through elegant and innovative design, analysis and understanding of dynamic compression experiments using gas-gun, magnetic compression, and laser sources. |
| Stephanie Law | Office of Science (Basic Energy Sciences) | University of Delaware | For pioneering, innovative work on molecular beam epitaxial growth of complex materials, and leadership in quantum science of novel light-matter interactions in topological insulators using Dirac plasmons with great potential to control physical properties. |
| Shiwoo Lee | DOE Program Office: Office of Fossil Energy | National Energy Technology Laboratory | For leadership and ingenuity in advancing solid oxide fuel cell technology; developing an innovative manufacturing method, or single-step electrode infiltration technique that significantly improves the efficiency of SOFCs; and mentoring future energy innovators. |
| Yen-Jie Lee | Office of Science (Nuclear Physics) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | For innovative scientific leadership in the field of relativistic heavy ion nuclear physics investigating the energy loss of jets originating with charm and bottom quarks to determine the properties of the Quark Gluon Plasma. |
| Lin Lin | Office of Science (Advanced Scientific Computational Research) | Institution: University of California, Berkeley | For scientific leadership in developing innovative algorithms, high-performance computing software, and efficient, first-principles electronic structure calculations for a wide range of chemistry, physics, materials science, and biology applications. |
| Shea Morgan Mosby | National Nuclear Security Administration | Los Alamos National Laboratory | For developing a novel method for neutron cross section measurement with unprecedented accuracy; for his vision and implementation of the full data acquisition system named the Detector for Advanced Neutron Capture Experiment or DANCE, and the multi-lab Chi-Nu project. |
| Jordan M. Musser | Office of Fossil Energy | National Energy Technology Laboratory | For outstanding service leading of all phases of the Multiphase Flow with Interphase Exchanges (MFIX) code; advancing development of MFIX for Exascale Computing; mentoring future energy innovators; and promoting the nation’s continued economic prosperity and sustained domestic energy independence. |
| Katharine Page | Office of Science (Basic Energy Sciences) | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | For the development of innovative analysis and software modeling tools for determining the effects of nanoparticle size and shape on local short-range atomic structure using neutron total scattering data, which has opened new frontiers in the understanding of the unique properties of these materials. |
| Arthur E. Pak | National Nuclear Security Administration | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | For the quantitative assessments and mitigation of radiation drive asymmetries in indirect drive inertial confinement fusion and for significantly contributing to the milestone achievement of 50kJ fusion yield in x-ray driven implosions at the National Ignition Facility. |
| Paul F. Schmit | National Nuclear Security Administration | Sandia National Laboratory | For exceptional technical contributions to the field of inertial confinement fusion, magnetized plasmas, and related science applications in support of the country’s national nuclear security mission, and for outstanding leadership and excellence in community outreach and mentoring of graduate students. |
| Kevin Paul Schneider | Office of Electricity | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | For significant contributions to the modeling of prototypical distribution feeders to enable the analysis of smart grid technologies; and for service to the scientific and educational communities as an enthusiastic instructor and mentor in the areas of power systems. |
| Rebecca Schulman | Office of Science (Basic Energy Sciences) | Johns Hopkins University | For highly innovative research on new bioinspired concepts to synthesize adaptive, reconfigurable, and self-repairing polymeric materials with controllable defect management, and for strong scientific leadership in the DNA-based materials research community and in scientific societies. |
| Julia F. Shelton | Office of Science (High Energy Physics) | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | For highly innovative research in developing well-motivated hidden-sector dark matter models and identifying experimental search strategies for these particles that broaden the program of Higgs boson studies at the Large Hadron Collider. |
| Timothy J. Silverman | Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy | National Renewable Energy Laboratory | For significant contributions to the field of solar energy through application of innovative new methods to the characterization of commercial photovoltaic or PV module designs and for discovering a critical defect in commercial modules that had otherwise gone unnoticed for years. |
| Tracy R. Slatyer | Office of Science (High Energy Physics) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | For intellectual leadership at the intersection of particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology; for development of new theoretical approaches to understand the nature of dark matter; and for improved analysis techniques to search for the dark matter signal from the center of our Galaxy. |
| Justin Stevens | Office of Science (Nuclear Physics) | The College of William and Mary | For scientific and technical leadership in developing innovative approaches and techniques to address forefront questions in the structure of hadrons by searching for exotic hadrons resulting from gluonic excitations as predicted by quantum chromodynamics. |
| Irina Tezaur | National Nuclear Security Administration | Sandia National Laboratories | For developing new, impactful mathematical methods and computer algorithms to enable real-time analysis, control and decision-making on computationally prohibitive problems through the use of stable and efficient reduced order models relevant to nuclear security mission and climate modeling. |
| Michael J Wagner | Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy | National Renewable Energy Laboratory | For leading laboratory and academic teams in high temperature materials, applied mathematics, systems optimization, and power plant modeling - while engaging industrial experts - to answer fundamental questions on the capability and grid value of Concentrating Solar Power. |
| Kelly C. Wrighton | Office of Science (Biological and Environmental Research) | Ohio State University | For innovative application of metagenomics to characterize methane-producing microbes in wetlands across spatial and temporal gradients, and for showing strong leadership in advancing new systems biology technologies to understand microbial methanogenesis in aerobic soils. |
| Christopher Andrew Zarzana | Office of Nuclear Energy | Idaho National Laboratory | For advancing the scientific knowledge and application of innovative ultratrace chemical processes and measurement methods to assure the future advancement of safe, reliable, peaceful and environmentally friendly implementation of nuclear energy. |
| Victor Zavala | Office of Electricity | University of Wisconsin-Madison | For significant contributions to the field of computational strategies applied to advanced control of power systems; and for service to the educational community as an enthusiastic professor and mentor. |
2014
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Department of Energy |
Funding Program |
Institution |
Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
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Jonathan Belof |
National Nuclear Security Administration |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
For contributions to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory national security programs, developing solutions for materials dynamics, materials strength, high temperature plasma problems, and innovative Quantum Monte Carlo and non-adiabatic electron dynamics methods supporting stockpile stewardship, National Boost Initiative, and global security. |
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Carl Dahl |
Office of Science (High Energy Physics) |
Northwestern University |
For novel ideas that have reframed research approaches to the direct detection of dark matter, including liquid xenon bubble chambers, and the physics of low-energy deposition in noble liquids; and for mentoring high school students with pedagogical experiments in particle detection. |
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Eric Duoss |
National Nuclear Security Administration |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
For innovation in the application of materials science research to additive manufacturing processes and new fabrication techniques, and excellent mentorship of students from underrepresented groups pursuing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers. |
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Anna Grassellino |
Office of Science (High Energy Physics) |
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
For developing the innovative nitrogen-doping technique that significantly improves the operating efficiency of superconducting radiofrequency accelerating cavities, which are an enabling technology for many advanced particle accelerators; and has potentially broad applications to discovery science. |
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Jacqueline Hakala |
Office of Fossil Energy |
National Energy Technology Laboratory |
For leadership in innovative research in advancing unconventional shale gas productivity and safety; exploring geologic carbon dioxide storage; developing geothermal energy potential; increasing energy production efficiency; minimizing environmental impacts of energy production; and mentoring in community outreach as a Science Ambassador. |
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Stephanie Hansen |
Office of Science (Fusion Energy Sciences) |
Sandia National Laboratories |
For developing an integrated modeling framework for non-equilibrium atomic physics in extreme material environments, now used worldwide, that enables precise spectral predictions revealing the structure of matter, and demonstrating leadership in high-energy-density-laboratory-plasma (HEDLP) physics. |
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Kory Hedman |
Office of Electricity |
Arizona State University |
For significant contributions to the field of grid operations and planning; and for service to the scientific and educational communities as an enthusiastic instructor and mentor in the areas of power systems and electric energy markets. |
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Alan Kruizenga |
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy |
Sandia National Laboratories |
For fundamental research in molten metallic and oxide systems that addresses materials compatibility, fouling, corrosion and degradation issues in diverse applications, including supercritical carbon dioxide Brayton power cycle, thermal energy storage, and other solar thermal power generation systems. |
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Wei Li |
Office of Science (Nuclear Physics) |
Rice University |
For the discovery of long range correlations of sub-atomic particles in high energy proton-proton and proton-nucleus collisions, suggesting possible formation of a quark gluon plasma previously expected only in collisions of heavy nuclei. |
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Guglielmo Scovazzi |
Office of Science (Advanced Scientific Computing Research) |
Duke University |
For novel and important contributions to numerical analysis including numerical methods for partial differential equations for the simulation of complex systems, dramatically reducing overall design / analysis turn-around time; and for professional leadership in the scientific computing community. |
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Michael Tonks |
Office of Nuclear Energy |
Idaho National Laboratory |
For developing innovative computational approaches to simulate the evolution of material microstructures under irradiation in nuclear reactors, leading to scientific insights into fuel behaviors and improvement opportunities, and for service to graduate students and the university research community. |
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Jenny Yang |
Office of Science (Basic Energy Sciences) |
University of California, Irvine |
For the innovative study of new transition metal complexes as homogeneous catalysts for the reduction of water and carbon dioxide that integrates synthesis, measurement of thermodynamic quantities, and predictive mechanistic models. |
2013
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Department of Energy (DOE) Recipients |
Funding Program |
Institution |
Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tonio Buonassisi | Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | For leadership and demonstration of exceptional promise in research at the forefront of the photovoltaics field, including defect engineering in multi-crystalline silicon solar cells and emerging photovoltaic absorbers, as well as his impact on the commercialization of photovoltaic technology. |
| Milind Kulkarni | Office of Science, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research | Purdue University | For highly innovative research on new computational algorithms that enable efficient parallel compilers and runtimes for mission critical applications that are based on massively irregular data sets, and for his exceptional scientific leadership. |
| Keji Lai | Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences | University of Texas-Austin | For innovative work in the development of microwave impedance microscopy to explore the microscopic nature of electrostatic field effects in advanced materials, and for leadership in promulgating the applied technology aspects of the technique. |
| Paul R. Ohodnicki, Jr. | Office of Fossil Energy | National Energy Technology Laboratory | For outstanding scientific leadership in the discovery and development of new materials that enable advanced energy systems, and for demonstrated excellence in educational outreach, mentorship, and research collaboration. |
| Michelle A. O'Malley | Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research | University of California, Santa Barbara | For innovative research on lignocellulose-degradation by anaerobic fungal species with application to biofuels production from plant biomass, for development of a genetic system for anaerobic fungi enabling bioengineering approaches to biofuels production, and for teaching and leadership activities in scientific societies. |
| Matthias R. Schindler | Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics | University of South Carolina | For innovative theoretical research to establish a systematic framework for the description of parity violation in few-nucleon systems, for calculating reliable and testable relations between observables in light nuclei, and for scientific leadership in the area of parity violation. |
| Jonathan Simon | Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences | University of Chicago | For pioneering research at the intersection of atomic, molecular, and optical sciences and condensed matter physics, including the investigation of highly controllable atomic-optical systems as quantum simulators for electronic condensed matter systems and with possible implications for quantum computation. |
| Michael Stadler | Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | For serving as lead developer of the DOE-funded microgrid modeling tool, Distributed Energy Resources Customer Adoption Model, available in 12 different versions with more than 350 worldwide users registered for academic microgrid and smart grid research usage. |
| Melissa C. Teague | Office of Nuclear Energy | Idaho National Laboratory | For pioneering the first application of advanced microstructural instrumentation to high burnup mixed oxide fuel, for preparing successive thin sections using a focused ion beam, characterizing each section using EBSD and EDS, and reconstructing the three dimensional original sample. |
| William A. Tisdale | Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | For developing novel methodology to visualize ultrafast electronic processes at interfaces and for conceptualizing its use in understanding ensemble behavior in photovoltaic, electrochemical, and optoelectronic systems. |
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National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Recipients |
Funding Program |
Institution |
Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan Hopkins | National Nuclear Security Administration, Defense Programs | University of California, Los Angeles | For work in design and fabrication of a new class of micro-engineered materials with novel properties including micro-scale material architectures that achieve targeted thermo-mechanical properties such as a zero or negative coefficients of thermal expansion. |
| Tammy Ma | National Nuclear Security Administration, Defense Programs | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | For innovation and leadership in quantifying hydrodynamic instability and mix in Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) implosion experiments demonstrating the highest ICF neutron yield and laboratory confinement parameters achieved to date. |
| David Mascareñas | National Nuclear Security Administration, Defense Programs | Los Alamos National Laboratory | For innovation and multidisciplinary research and development of cyber-physical systems, haptic human-computer interfaces for structural damage detection, excellent mentorship and commitment to scientific outreach through development of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Science of Signatures Advanced Study Institute. |
2012
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Department of Energy (DOE) Recipients |
Funding Program |
Institution |
Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brian James Anderson | Office of Fossil Energy | West Virginia University | For developing novel simulation techniques for energy production from methan hydrates; advances in the simultaneous use and sequestration of carbon dioxide in hydrates and geothermal systems; and strong commitment to university teaching and mentoring. |
| Theodore A. Betley | Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences | Harvard University | For the design of an innovative class of polymetallic catalysts for the conversion of small molecules like carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen into value-added chemicals, including fuels; and for developing an academic outreach program to increase minority representation in science. |
| Adrian R. Chavez | Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability | Sandia National Laboratories | For pioneering trust anchor computational algorithms that enhance energy-sector cybersecurity through provably secure obfuscation of energy delivery software; leadership in interoperable secure communications among energy delivery control system devices; and community outreach to under-represented, at-risk students. |
| Gary E. Douberly | Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences | University of Georgia | For foundational spectroscopic studies of previously unobserved, complex, hydrocarbon combustion intermediates critical to the understanding of ignition and soot formation; and for service to undergraduates and the scientific community. |
| Mattan Erez | Office of Science, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research | University of Texas, Austin | For innovative research to overcome severe reliability obstacles in using advanced computer architectures for scientific discovery, and for dedicated service and professional leadership in the scientific computing community. |
| Sean A. Hartnoll | Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics | Stanford University | For innovative research in high-energy string theory applied to condensed matter physics, and for exploiting the connection offered by "holographic duality" between classical gravitational space-time and quantum condensed matter systems to explore quantum gravity theory and solid state physics. |
| Daniel N. Kasen | Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics | University of California, Berkeley | For advances in the use of high-performance computing to model the transport of radiation in steller explosions; connecting the theory of such phenomena to astrophysical observables; and service in support of summer schools and the computational physics community. |
| Meimei Li | Office of Nuclear Energy | Argonne National Laboratory | For advances in the development and qualification of structural materials for advanced nuclear reactors, including through tests of sodium compatibility; the development of mechanistic models of creep-fatigue interaction and microstructure changes of advanced materials; and service to the scientific community. |
| Jennifer L. Reed | Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research | University of Wisconsin, Madison | For leading systems biology research integrating computational simulation with genome-based experimental design to produce biofuels directly from sunlight and carbon dioxide using a photosynthetic cyanobacterium, and for community leadership through publication, mentoring, and broad scientific outreach. |
| Adam Z. Weber | Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | For innovations in modeling and analysis of water and thermal management in polymer electrolyte fuel cells; the development of diagnostic techniques for fuel cells relevant to cathode flooding and freeze kinetics; and leadership in coordinating scientific collaborations. |
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National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Recipients |
Funding Program |
Institution |
Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matthew R.W. Brake | National Nuclear Security Administration, Defense Programs | Sandia National Laboratories | For development of novel elastic-plastic impact models; methods for probabilistic and optimization analysis of nonlinear complex structures; and development of frameworks for coupled fluid-structure interactions. |
| Miguel A. Morales | National Nuclear Security Administration, Defense Programs | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | For development of ab-initio quantum simulations and their application to the evaluation of phase separation in hydrogen-helium mixtures, and for simulations showing first-order liquid-liquid transitions in hydrogen at high pressures. |
| Seth Root | National Nuclear Security Administration, Defense Programs | Sandia National Laboratories | For inventing capabilities and experimental techniques for precision measurements of cryogenic fluids at extreme pressures; high-pressure measurements of uranium, oxides, energetic compounds, and other materials; and pioneering analysis techniques for uncertainty evaluation. |
2011
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Department of Energy (DOE) Recipients |
Funding Program |
Institution |
Citation |
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| Stanley Atcitty | Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability | Sandia National Laboratories | For advances in power electronics for the electric grid including the development of a high-temperature silicon-carbide power module and an ultra-high-voltage silicon-carbide thyristor, for research on grid integration of energy storage, and for mentorship in the Native American community. |
| Derek R. Gaston | Office of Nuclear Energy | Idaho National Laboratory | For the development of a multi-physics simulation framework that enables the rapid creation of fast engineering simulation tools, for the application of this framework to the understanding of accident-tolerant and novel nuclear fuels, and for service to the scientific community. |
| Christopher Hirata | Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics | California Institute of Technology | For innovative work reducing astrophysical uncertainties that limit the extraction of fundamental physics parameters from cosmological observations, for studies of the sensitivity of structure formation to the relative velocity between dark matter and baryons in the early universe, and for service on NASA/DOE Joint Dark Energy Mission working groups. |
| Heileen Hsu-Kim | Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research | Duke University | For leading nanogeochemistry research to understand toxin subsurface transport establishing a new geochemical framework for predicting mercury methylation potential in contaminated sediments and for leadership in publishing and collaboration with synchrotron scientists in the United States and Europe. |
| Thomas Francisco Jaramillo | Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy | Stanford University | For innovations in solar hydrogen production, including using quantum confinement in molybdenum-disulfide nano-particles to enhance catalytic reactivity, for incorporating these catalysts into high-surface-area scaffolds, and for excellence in mentoring at the university level. |
| Pablo Jarillo-Herrero | Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | For pioneering research on quantum transport phenomena in graphene and topological insulators, which has expanded understanding of the fundamental electronic structure and laid a foundation for future energy applications, and outreach to the public through the popular press. |
| John R. Kitchin | Office of Fossil Energy | Carnegie Mellon University | For advances in electrochemical separations for carbon capture including the demonstration of alkaline ion exchange membranes for oxygen separation, for fundamental advances in computational simulation of metal catalyst reactivity, and for excellence in teaching, student mentoring, and introduction of computing into the engineering curriculum. |
| Peter Mueller | Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics | Argonne National Laboratory | For scientific leadership in developing precision laser spectroscopy and atom trapping techniques resulting in groundbreaking insights on the charge radii of exotic light nuclei and the fundamental nature of the weak interaction via precise measurement of nuclear beta decay. |
| Daniel B. Sinars | Office of Science, Office of Fusion Energy Sciences | Sandia National Laboratories | For developing innovative techniques to study the properties of instabilities in magnetized-high-energy-density plasma, enabling quantifiable comparison between experiment and simulation needed for validating cutting-edge radiation-hydrodynamics codes, and for demonstrating substantial leadership qualities in high-energy-density-laboratory-plasma (HEDLP) physics. |
| Jesse Thaler | Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | For innovative work exploring possible new physics beyond the Standard Model, for development of improved techniques for distinguishing events at the Large Hadron Collider involving new physics from those due to known interactions, and for developing tools that have helped train aspiring particle phenomenologists confronting the challenges of collider data. |
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National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Recipients |
Funding Program |
Institution |
Citation |
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| Amy J. Clarke | National Nuclear Security Administration, Defense Programs | Los Alamos National Laboratory | For research on uranium niobium alloy deformation mechanisms using micro-pillar compression testing to determine the influence of orientation on stress-strain response, for using in-situ solidification and proton radiography with potential to finally resolve liquid-solid processing questions relevant to nuclear weapons, and for mentoring future ferrous metallurgists. |
| Jeffrey W. Banks | National Nuclear Security Administration, Defense Programs | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | For work in computational physics, scientific computation, and numerical analysis, especially pioneering contributions in numerical approximations to hyperbolic partial differential equations focusing on the development and analysis of nonlinear and high-resolution finite-volume and finite-difference methods, and for service in high schools and the scientific community. |
| Heather Whitley | National Nuclear Security Administration, Defense Programs | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | For using path-integral Monte Carlo techniques to produce very accurate quantum statistical potentials for use in molecular dynamic codes, for applying these methods to first-principles understanding of thermal conductivity in ignition capsules for the National Ignition Facility, and for service to the laboratory Postdoctoral Association. |
2010
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Office of Science Recipients |
Science Funding Program |
Institution |
Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Bauer | HEP | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | For developing crucial computational tools that will enable physicists at the Large Hadron Collider to distinguish new discoveries from known processes; for delivering an event generator simulation package that captures the most accurate state-of-the-art calculations; and for mentoring future high-energy physicists. |
| Grigory Bronevetsky | ASCR | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | For innovative, cutting-edge research using statistical models to predict the effects of system faults leading to the development of new software tools and more reliable applications and supercomputer systems, and for his strong track record of professional service and leadership. |
| Carole Dabney-Smith | BES | Miami University | For imaginative research on the unique pathway that transports folded and assembled proteins across lipid membranes in plants to form the energy-harvesting complexes of photosynthesis and for excellent mentorship of developing scientists. |
| David Erickson | BES | Cornell University | For pioneering multidisciplinary research on innovative optofluidic devices, self-reliant microfluidic and biorobotic systems, reconfigurable photonics, biosensing technologies, and directed nanoassembly, as well as service to the research community demonstrated by editorship of two leading journals. |
| Daniel Fredrickson | BES | University of Wisconsin-Madison | For the development of concepts crucial to defining the importance of chemical frustration as a critical component mediating between bonding and structure in complex alloys, and for changing the way the community thinks about the structures of solid-state inorganic compounds. |
| Christiane Jablonowski | ASCR | University of Michigan | For exemplary computation science research, advancing the frontier at the interfaces of applied math, computer science, scientific computing, and atmospheric science, and for leadership in connecting diverse communities and bridging the gaps between mathematical and computational developments and the special requirements of climate modeling. |
| Alysia Marino | HEP | University of Colorado | For significant accomplishments in the study of neutrino properties and the development of beam-line diagnostic tools that will inform design choices for future neutrino beam facilities; and for excellent mentoring of graduate students. |
| Victoria Orphan | BER | California institute of Technology | For developing new techniques to study interactions between microbes, relevant for understanding the role of methane in the biosphere, which is of urgent importance for addressing the global carbon cycle and climate change; and for emerging leadership in the microbiology research community. |
| Wei-Jun Qian | BER | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | For developing and improving methods to identify proteins in key metabolic processes, profiling dynamic protein abundances at the subcellular level, providing information needed to make enzyme processing of biomass more efficient, and for impressive scientific independence and leadership in proteomics. |
| Evgenya Simakov | HEP | Los Alamos National Laboratory | For pioneering the development of specially designed structures for high-energy accelerators that mitigate undesirable byproducts of high-energy particle acceleration, thus improving the quality and intensity of the accelerated particle beam; and for outreach activities and leadership in the advanced accelerator community. |
| Feng Wang | BES | University of California, Berkeley | For pioneering research on ultrafast optical characterization of carbon nanostructures that has advanced the fundamental understanding of the electronic structure of graphene and is expected to enable the development of advanced-energy-relevant technologies. |
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Office of Defense Programs |
University
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Laboratory Affiliation |
Citation |
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Fotini Chow |
University of California, Berkeley |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | For fundamental research on the simulation of atmospheric turbulence, which has wide-ranging applications that include the dispersal of plumes resulting from atmospheric releases of radioactive or toxic material and the accurate simulation of wind fields for weather prediction. |
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Gang L. Liu |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | For collaborative development of Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy techniques for a variety of national security applications ranging from measuring the long-term health of the U.S. nuclear stockpile to bio-detection. |
2009
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Office of Science Recipients |
Science Funding Program |
Laboratory |
Citation |
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| Eric D. Bauer | BES | Los Alamos National Laboratory | For pioneering condensed matter physics research through the discovery and synthesis of new materials, especially strongly correlated and f-electron systems, and the elucidation of their novel physical properties; and for outreach activities with students and the scientific community. |
| Jeremy T. Busby | FES | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | For excellence in research leading to the development of high performance cast stainless steels, a critical part of the U.S. Contributions to ITER project, and for his mentoring of students both as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan and at ORNL. |
| Gavin E. Crooks | BES | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | For groundbreaking development of the Crooks Fluctuation Theorem of statistical mechanics to describe thermodynamics for systems far from equilibrium which impact nano-scale device performance, materials design, and energy storage and capture; and for excellent and extensive mentorship of developing scientists. |
| Juan Estrada | HEP | Fermi National Accelerator National Laboratory | For his widely-recognized contributions to high-energy physics and particle astrophysics experiments, and his invention of a new detector concept that can extend searches for dark matter particles into a range not covered by existing experiments; and for actively involving high school science students and teachers in this research. |
| Dillon Fong | BES | Argonne National Laboratory | For significant contributions to the understanding of nanoscale size effects on ferroelectric phase transitions and to the advancement and application of in situ synchrotron x-ray techniques for the study of thin film heterostructures critical to the development of new materials for energy technologies; and for broad scientific community outreach and mentoring of students. |
| Jacob M. Hooker | BER | Brookhaven National Laboratory | For pioneering research on adapting modern synthetic chemistry to the development of new tools for tracking and quantifying biochemical transformations and the movement of complex molecules in living systems, as well as outreach and mentorship to visiting students and scholars. |
| De-en Jiang | BES | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | For internationally recognized, pioneering computational research in probing novel properties of nanostructures and chemically modified interfaces for chemical problems in separations and catalysis; and for an extraordinary record of leadership and outreach to the scientific and educational communities. |
| Sergei V. Kalinin | BES | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | For extraordinary insights into scanning probe microscopy principles and applying them to fundamental research in phase transitions and energy conversion on the nanoscale, and for founding an international nanoscience workshop series and serving as an instructor in this series. |
| Trent R. Northen | BER | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | For pioneering analysis of metabolomic features of biological systems with previously unattainable sensitivity and spatial resolution, providing new insights impacting biofuel development, understanding biofilms, and biological responses to low dose ionizing radiation; and for community service and diverse educational outreach. |
| Elena V. Shevchenko | BES | Argonne National Laboratory | For development of breakthrough research techniques assembling nanosized building blocks into mondispersed supercrystals with controllable size, shape, and composition with unique electronic, optical, and magnetic properties; and for service to scientific and lay communities as an enthusiastic instructor and mentor. |
| Jacob G. Wacker | HEP | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory | For the construction of new and imaginative models of elementary particles, and the development of strategies that have increased the reach and breadth of accelerator searches for new particles at the highest energies; and for his strong engagement with the experimental community to advance these new research directions. |
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Ilke Arslan |
University of California, Davis |
Sandia National Laboratory | For the advanced characterization of energy and hydrogen storage nanomaterials used in technologies critical to national defense and homeland security, for advancing the technologies necessary to characterize these materials, and for excellence in outreach and mentoring of the next generation of American scientists and engineers. |
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Gianluca Iaccarino |
Stanford University |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | For his extensive and deep scientific contributions in the areas of turbulent flow and uncertainty quantifications and quantified margins of uncertainty, which are amplified for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) community through his position of intellectual leadership at the NNSA Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program Center at Stanford. |
2008
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Cecilia Aragon |
ASCR |
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
For seminal research in workflow management and visual analytics for data-intensive scientific research, including the development of the Fourier contour analysis algorithm and Sunfall; and for leadership in advancing diversity in computing. |
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Gary Baker |
BES |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
For his internationally recognized pioneering research and achievements in environmentally-responsible chemistry that have lead to new paradigms in separation sciences, chemical analysis, biomass processing, fuel cell technology and energy storage applications and for his excellent and extensive mentorship of developing scientists. |
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Joshua Breslau |
FES |
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory |
For his playing an essential role in the development of the massively-parallel fusion magnetohydrodynamics code M3D; for his original and unique applications of this code to the nonlinear dynamics; and for his involvement with students at the laboratory and in the National Science Bowl. |
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Gianluigi Ciovati |
NP |
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility |
For his work on the dependence of cavity Q-value on accelerating gradient and the causes of degradation of Q-value at higher gradients that is making a significant impact on the international superconducting accelerator applications community; and for outstanding mentoring of graduate students. |
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Jason Graetz |
BES |
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
For outstanding contributions towards achieving national energy independence through excellent experimental work in elucidating the catalytic reaction in complex metal hydrides and in synthesizing and characterizing potential hydrogen storage compounds and for outreach activities with students and the scientific community. |
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Stefan Gerhardt |
FES |
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory |
For his innovative an seminal work by enabling the systematic diagnosis for interpretation of key stability characteristics of a broad range of magnetically-confined toroidal plasmas and for his outstanding contributions to improving understanding of fundamental plasma physics in laboratory plasmas; and for exceptional student mentoring and outreach. |
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Jeffrey Neaton |
BES |
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
For his fundamental contributions to the understanding of the electronic structure and transport properties of condensed matter, in particular nanostructures; and for his extraordinary record of service and outreach to the scientific and educational communities. |
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Paul Sorensen |
NP |
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
For original research demonstrating quark number scaling in the elliptic flow of hadrons in nucleus-nucleus collisions that together with theoretical studies indicated the formation of a new form of matter - the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma; and for service on the governing council of the STAR experiment. |
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Alexandre Tartakovsky |
BER |
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
For pioneering application of Lagrangian particle simulation methods to the modeling of subsurface hydrologic processes, including multiphase flow, flow in fractured media, biogeochemical processes, and mixing-controlled precipitation reactions; for significant contributions to quantifying fluid flow uncertainty; and for teaching and mentoring students in multiscale mathematics. |
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Ivan Vitev |
NP |
Los Alamos National Laboratory |
For seminal theoretical research on energy loss in the quark-gluon plasma, providing clear insights on crucial properties of the high energy-density regime of quantum chromodynamics as explored at the Department of Energy’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider facility; and for the organization of international physics workshops and colloquia. |
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Lynford Goddard |
University of Illinois,
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
For his innovative research in building high-speed chip-seal monolithic photonic systems that contribute to device design, modeling and fabrication, as well as the characterization of novel semiconductor materials. |
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Thao (Vicky) Nguyen |
Johns Hopkins University |
Sandia National Laboratories | For the development of advanced models of the thermomechanical behavior of viscoelastic and inelastic materials used in technologies critical to national defense and homeland security, for contributions to fabricate these materials and develop these technologies, and for the excellence in teaching the development and implementation of material models to the next generation of American scientists and engineers. |
2007
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Mickey Chiu |
NP |
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
For developing the use of neutral pions to identify hot, dense nuclear matter and to study transverse proton spin asymmetries; and for mentoring of graduate students in building advanced instrumentation. |
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Hooman Davoudiasl |
HEP |
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
For elucidating experimental signatures for testing the possible existence of extra space-time dimensions; and for providing guest lectures to graduate students as well as organizing international conferences. |
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Bert Debusschere |
ASCR |
Sandia National Laboratories |
For introducing rigorous, mathematical methods capturing stochastic uncertainties in computational biology and providing a framework for simulation-based discovery; and for service to the Sandia Diversity Council and Foreign National Networking Group. |
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Jennifer S. Martinez |
BES |
Los Alamos National Laboratory |
For the discovery and characterization of templated nanomaterials, biomolecular recognition strategies, and natural products of marine bacteria for robust biological sensing; and for exemplary career-development mentoring of women. |
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Wei Pan |
BES |
Sandia National Laboratories |
For leadership in the field of experimental many-particle physics, especially non-Abelian states in ultra-clean two-dimensional systems; and for broad scientific community outreach activities and leadership. |
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Robin Santra |
BES |
Argonne National Laboratory |
For contributions to the field of atomic, molecular, and optical science in the areas of high-order harmonic generation and strong-field absorption and ionization; and for scientific mentoring of students and the public. |
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Yugang Sun |
BES |
Argonne National Laboratory |
For developing ground-breaking techniques for chemical synthesis and nanofabrication of metal and semiconductor nanomaterials; and for educational activities for the community. |
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Jeanine Cook |
New Mexico State University |
Klipsch School of Electrical & Computer Engineering |
Sandia National Laboratories | For high-impact research on performance modeling and prediction of future generation computer architecture; and for dedication to educating and mentoring future-generation electrical and computer engineers. |
2006
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Kyle Cranmer |
HEP |
Physics Department, Omega Group |
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
for his unique contributions to the ATLAS experiment’s search for the Higgs boson, including seminal studies of the Higgs boson production via Vector Boson Fusion and the trigger algorithms needed to identify missing transverse energy |
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Julia Laskin |
BES |
Chemical Sciences Division |
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
for internationally recognized contributions to ion chemistry, mass spectrometry, and ion surface reactions leading to fundamental understanding of kinetics of dissociation of large molecules |
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Ho Nyung Lee |
BES |
Materials Science and Technology Division |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
for his pioneering development of experimental methods and theoretical understanding leading to the atomic scale synthesis by pulsed-laser deposition of ultrathin complex oxide heterostructures and completely artificial superlattice crystals with designed-in functionalities |
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Len A. Pennacchio |
BER |
Genomics Division |
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
for systematically assigning gene regulatory function to the human genome through the coupling of vertebrate comparative genomics and large-scale studies in mice, using a world-class and unique mouse resource that he established |
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Brian J. Kirby |
Cornell University |
Sandia National Laboratories |
for his pioneering work in nanoscale electrokinetic transport, pathogen and chemical detection, quantum data storage, and advanced microsystems that are critical to developing technical capabilities for stockpile stewardship, enhanced surety, and non-proliferation |
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Jeffrey Kysar |
Columbia University |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
for fundamental research into the deformation of materials under high-rate loading, including development of mechanistic models of microstructure and material fracture evolution for the Stockpile Stewardship Program |
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Shawn Newsam |
University of California, Merced |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
for outstanding research in image processing, pattern recognition, and data mining, and for his leading role in educating young scientists and engineers by developing a new and innovative academic program in computer science and engineering |
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Carlos Pantano-Rubino |
University of Illinois |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
for innovative development of computational turbulence models and advanced simulations of turbulent flows, contributions to the theory of laminar flames, and the statistical modeling of flame-hole dynamics |
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2005
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Daniel Bardayan |
NP |
Nuclear Physics, Physics Division |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
for innovative precision nuclear spectroscopy measurements clarifying the production of elements and radioisotopes in exploding stars, and for mentoring undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral associates as well as organizing a summer school for graduate students to explore exotic beam physics. |
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Todd Munson |
ASCR |
Mathematics and Computer Science Division |
Argonne National Laboratory |
for pioneering developments in algorithms, software, and problem-solving environments for the solution of large-scale optimization problems, and for mentoring students in the summer student program and conducting tutorials to graduate students on numerical optimization. |
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Wynne Schiffer |
BER |
Center for Translational Neuroimaging |
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
for pioneering work in integrating neurobiology, chemistry, physics, and instrumentation in order to translate multi-disciplinary discoveries and new knowledge into advances in human health, and for providing educational outreach on brain imaging and drug abuse to educators and the public |
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Yanwen Zhang |
BES |
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory |
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
for internationally recognized, seminal contributions to the fields of ion-beam physics and ion-solid interactions in materials, including the development of a novel approach for measuring electronic stopping, and for mentoring high school, undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral students and providing Chinese translation of scientific information. |
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Christopher J. Roy |
Aerospace Engineering Department |
Auburn University |
Sandia National Laboratories |
for the development of verification and validation methodologies critical to improving accuracy and building confidence in computational science and engineering simulations, for the development of unsteady hybrid turbulence models and fluid dynamics simulations, and for providing high quality educational opportunities for the next generation of American scientists and engineers |
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Wendelin Wright |
Stanford University |
Department of Materials Science and Engineering |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
for research into the deformation and failure of metals and polymers under dynamic loading using high-speed and spatially-resolved infrared measurements of temperature, for guidance and leadership of fellow researchers, and for her exceptional ability to communicate difficult technical concepts to colleagues and students |
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Michael A. Zingale |
Department of Physics and Astronomy |
Stony Brook University |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
for advancing the detailed simulation of turbulent combustion and demonstrating parallel, multi-physics methods used in national security-related applications, for pioneering collaborations with fellow researchers, and for training students in computational astrophysics |
2004
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John Arrington |
NP |
Physics Division |
Argonne National Laboratory |
for his research into the quark distributions of nuclei which has provided a compelling new look into the short-range structure of nuclei |
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William Ashmanskas |
HEP |
High Energy Physics |
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
for applying state-of-the-art digital electronics techniques to Fermilab accelerator instrumentation and controls |
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Hong Qin |
FES |
Fusion Energy Division |
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory |
for his contributions to the physics of high-intensity particle beams, with application to ion-beam fusion energy, and for his work on electromagnetic effects in magnetically-confined plasmas, with applications in magnetic fusion energy |
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Robert B Ross |
ASCR |
Mathematical, Information and Computational Sciences Division |
Argonne National Laboratory |
for his design of parallel computer file systems and high-performance interfaces to manage large datasets. His work is helping users worldwide overcome the input/output bottleneck that has hampered performance on commercial parallel computers |
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Paul Vaska |
BER |
Environmental and Health Sciences Division |
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
for his leadership and scientific innovation in the field of medical imaging physics, particularly for the development of novel instrumentation and techniques to improve the capabilities of positron emission tomography in medicine |
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Zhangbu Xu |
NP |
High Energy and Nuclear Physics |
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
for his research techniques and technical developments applied to the search for a new state of matter at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, a world-class accelerator for nuclear physics |
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Wei Cai |
Stanford University |
Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
for the development of a computational theory of dislocation dynamics, which has been able to unify dislocation physics and crystal plasticity into a new computational discipline, for developing ways to deal with challenging multiscale problems, especially those with widely disparate time scales, and for the development of innovative tools to aid in teaching beginning students about atomistic simulations |
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William P. King |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering |
Sandia National Laboratories |
for work in heat transfer and thermomechanical properties of materials at the nanometer scale, which is critical to developments in nonproliferation, stockpile surety, and homeland defense, for collaborations with industry towards the commercialization of nanotechnology, and for excellent teaching of graduate and undergraduate students |
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Yunfeng Lu |
Department of Chemical Engineering |
Tulane University |
Sandia National Laboratories |
for pioneering work in the synthesis of novel porous and composite nanoscale materials and their application to sensing and detection in support of the country's national security mission, and for excellence in teaching and mentoring graduate students |
2003
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Tamara G. Kolda |
ASCR |
Mathematical, Information and Computational Sciences Division |
Sandia National Laboratories |
for her innovative research in algorithms and software for scientific computing, performance optimization, parallel computing and complex, nonlinear problems. |
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Saskia Mioduszewski |
NP |
High Energy and Nuclear Physics |
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
for her studies of the properties of the unusual matter formed in extremely high-energy nuclear collisions produced at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. |
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Margaret S. Torn |
BER |
Environmental and Health Sciences Division |
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
for her use of carbon and oxygen isotopes to better understand and model carbon cycling. Her research provides critical advances in terrestrial carbon sequestration and quantifying regional sources and sinks of atmospheric carbon dioxide. |
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Jian Shen |
BES |
Chemistry Sciences Division/Geosciences Research Program |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
for his pioneering approach to the study of magnetism in nanostructured materials |
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Catherine M. Snelson |
The University of Nevada - Las Vegas |
Department of Geoscience |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
for her contributions to the characterization of the geologic structure of the Las Vegas, Nevada basin |
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Donald P. Visco, Jr. |
Department of Chemical Engineering |
Tennessee Technological University |
Sandia National Laboratories |
for contributing fundamental insights into solving inverse molecular design problems |
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Brian D. Wirth |
University of California, Berkeley |
Department of Nuclear Engineering |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
for this computational dynamics studies of dislocations and defects in metals, primarily those resulting from irradiation by neutrons and ions |
2002
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Jeffrey C. Blackmon |
NP |
Physics Division |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
for his pioneering work in implementing a program of measurements at the ORNL Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility with radioactive nuclear beams to understand stellar explosions. |
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Edmond Chow |
ASCR |
Mathematical, Information and Computational Sciences Division |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
for research into preconditioning methods for discretized partial differential equations that has enabled scientists at LLNL to perform implicit simulations that were previously impossible. His planned research will produce still more sophisticated techniques; these will greatly facilitate the manner in which numerical simulation methods are developed and applied. |
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Sergei Maslov |
BES |
Materials Sciences |
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
for his contributions to the physics of complex systems. |
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Jonathan E. Menard |
FES |
Fusion Energy Division |
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory |
for performing seminal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) stability optimization studies at low aspect ratio which impact the design and physics basis of the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) and future spherical torus reactors, and for outstanding experimental contributions to understanding the MHD equilibrium and stability properties of NSTX plasmas. |
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Christine Orme |
BES |
ChemistrySciences Division/Geosciences Research Program |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
for her work on understanding the physical mechanisms of biomineralization and the development of force microscopy-based methods of investigating mineralization at the nanoscale. |
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Carl Boehlert |
School of Ceramic Engineering and Materials Science |
Alfred University |
Los Alamos National Laboratory |
in recognition of his insightful research into structural intermetallics and metal matrix composites, and his innovative use of emerging microstructural characterization techniques for orientation mapping of actinides, contributing to an increased understanding of the process-structure-property relationships of these advanced materials |
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Krishnakumar Garikipati |
The University of Michigan - Ann Arbor |
Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Sandia National Laboratories |
for the development of efficient, robust numerical solutions of non-local models of solids, which allow the description of their properties at finer resolutions than previously possible |
2001
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Ian Anderson |
BES |
Materials Sciences Division |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
for research in electron beam characterization techniques with applications for the development of new, energy-efficient materials |
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Vincent Cianciolo |
NP |
Physics Division |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
for developing a scientific program and detector instrumentation for experiments at the Brookhaven National Laboratory to understand the existence of quark-gluon plasma |
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Mark Herrmann |
FES |
Fusion Energy Division |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
for contributions to the fundamental studies of inertial fusion with the potential of improving the efficiency of fusion reactors |
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Jizhong Zhou |
BER |
Environmental and Health Sciences Division |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
for leadership in functional genomics and microbial ecology and the development of technologies needed for microscale environmental research |
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Kenneth A. Gall |
University of Colorado |
Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Sandia National Laboratories |
for unique insights contributing to the development of multi-scale experiments and enhanced material models that span microstructural and continuum phenomena |
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Paul Ricker |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
for leadership in developing and demonstrating technical advances in the multi-physics, scalable parallel computing methods used to simulate complex astrophysical phenomena |
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Z. John Zhang |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
School of Chemistry and Biochemistry |
Sandia National Laboratories |
for innovations and vital contributions to the development of new tools, materials, and applications that advance the science of component microfabrication from materials other than silicon |
2000
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Richard B. Lehoucq |
ASCR |
Mathematical, Information and Computational Sciences Division |
Sandia National Laboratories |
for innovative and creative approaches to numerical software with a solid understanding of mathematics and computer science; for software contributions for the solution of eigensystems of equations; and for impact on scientists both at Sandia National laboratories and in the broader professional community |
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Zhihongb Lin |
FES |
Fusion Energy Division |
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory |
for performing advanced simulations with unprecedented realism and resolution leading to results demonstrating the positive impact of modern massively parallel computers and for outstanding contributions to improved understanding of plasma turbulence |
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Zheng-Tian Lu |
NP |
Physics Division |
Argonne National Laboratory |
for the development of the Atom Trap Trace Analysis technique which has provided a powerful new tool for ultra-sensitive trace isotope analysis in fundamental research and technological applications |
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Andrey Zheludev |
BES |
Materials Sciences Division |
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
for internationally-recognized research and discoveries in the field of quantum magnetism, achieved through skillful application of neutron-scattering techniques |
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Aaron L. Odom |
Michigan State University |
Department of Chemistry |
Los Alamos National Laboratory |
for discovery of uranium-dinitrogen complexes and theoretical studies aimed at understanding their electronic structure and bonding |
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Jonas C. Peters |
California Institute of Technology |
Chemistry Division |
Los Alamos National Laboratory |
for developing novel, molecularly engineered ligand systems for the activation and cleavage of industrially important small molecules |
1999
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Kenneth M. Kemner |
BER |
Environmental and Health Sciences Division |
Argonne National Laboratory |
for seminal contributions in the development and application of high-energy X-ray synchrotron radiation techniques to materials and environmental science |
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John F. Mitchell |
BES |
Materials Sciences Division |
Argonne National Laboratory |
for highly creative synthesis combined with outstanding scientific leadership to facilitate a collaborative research program, which extends world-wide, to understand the phenomena of colossal magnetoresistance |
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Lynne E. Parker |
BES |
Materials Sciences Division |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
for exceptional research and national leadership in the area of heterogeneous multi-robot cooperation |
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Xian Chen |
BER |
Environmental and Health Sciences Division |
Los Alamos National Laboratory |
for an innovative approach to DNA labeling and mass spectrometric identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms |
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Ken R. Czerwinski |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Department of Nuclear Engineering |
Los Alamos National Laboratory |
for developing the fundamental chemistry of the new element rutherfordium (element 104) by perfecting "one-atom-at-a-time" chemical procedures on the highly radioactive atoms of 263Rf |
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David M. Ford |
Texas A&M University |
Department of Chemical Engineering |
Sandia National Laboratories |
for developing materials modeling capabilities and companion massive parallel algorithms for the prediction of and solutions to aging materials problems of the enduring stockpile |
1998
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Mari Lou Balmer |
BER |
Environmental and Health Sciences Division |
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
for nationally recognized, seminal contributions to the fields of selective ion sequestration and plasma-activated catalysis |
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James W. Lee |
BES |
Chemistry Sciences Division |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
for seminal contributions to photosynthesis research and its application to nanofabrication, molecular electronics, and production of renewable fuels and chemicals |
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Anthony Mezzacappa |
NP |
Nuclear Physics, Physics Division |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
for his work identifying the explosive mechanism of core-collapse and associated nucleosynthesis in supernovae |
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Gary P. Wiederrecht |
BES |
Chemistry Division |
Argonne National Laboratory |
for creativity and accomplishments in the field of new optical materials for energy efficient image processing and storage |
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Tonya L. Kuhl |
University of California at Santa Barbara |
Department of Chemical Engineering |
Los Alamos National Laboratory |
for the development of a confined-geometry shear cell that allows for the study of the structure of fluid molecules captured between aligned solid surfaces, an application that provides considerable benefit to the DP mission in the study of complex materials |
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Roya Maboudian |
University of California at Berkeley |
Department of Chemical Engineering |
Sandia National Laboratories |
for enabling work in self-assembled monolayer anti-stiction coatings that are crucial in the development of MicroElectroMechanical Systems prototype components for weapons program applications |
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Christopher Palmer |
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology |
Department of Chemistry |
Sandia National Laboratories |
for contributions in the field of liquid phase chemical analysis using micelle polymers as separation media in the development of portable devices for detecting and identifying warfare agents |
1997
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Andrew Brandt |
HEP |
High Energy Physics |
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
for his leading role in the study of diffraction phenomena and his contributions to the experimental study of proton-proton collisions at very high energies |
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David J.Dean |
NP |
Nuclear Physics, Physics Division |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
for his research in nuclear structure physics and critical contributions to the development of the Shell Model Monte Carlo methods, making possible the extension of shell model calculations to heavier nuclei |
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Lori A. Freitag |
ASCR |
Mathematical, Information and Computational Sciences Division |
Argonne National Laboratory |
for her pioneering work on the design of techniques for visualizing large data sets in interactive virtual reality environments |
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David E. Newman |
FES |
Fusion Energy Division |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
for seminal contributions to the theoretical understanding of turbulence and transport in magnetic fusion devices |
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John Shanklin |
BES |
Chemistry Sciences Divison/Biosciences program |
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
for his internationally acclaimed research on the structure and function of a class of enzymes (desaturases and hydroxylases) that introduce double bonds or hydroxyl groups at specific sites between pairs of carbon atoms in long-chain fatty acids |
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Bruno S. Bauer |
University of Nevada at Reno |
Department of Physics |
Los Alamos National Laboratory |
for contributions in high-energy science that allow the above-ground experiments essential for science based stockpile stewardship |
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Thomas J. Matula |
University of Washington at Seattle |
Applied Physics Laboratory |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
for experimental research into the fundamental mechanisms of sonoluminescence that provides theoretical, computational and experimental benefits to Inertial Confinement Fusion studies |
1996
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Michael Smith |
NP |
Nuclear |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
for establishing an astrophysics program at the first facility devoted fully to radioactive ion beam physics, and for contributing to the collection and evaluation of nuclear reaction data applicable to astrophysics phenomena |
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John P. Hill |
BES |
Materials Sciences |
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
for elucidating the role of crystalline order in electron dynamics and of disorder in magnetic phase transitions, and for continuing development of magnetic and inelastic x-ray scattering techniques in the study of condensed matter |
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Philip M. Jardine |
BER |
Health and Environmental Sciences |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
for meticulous research integrating field and laboratory studies with theoretical concepts that have advanced the understanding of nutrient cycling and contaminant reactions and transport in unsaturated, heterogenous soils |
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Christine Hartmann |
BER |
Health and Environmental Sciences |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
for leading the PEREGRINE Project to develop a new approach to the treatment of cancer, which will enable physicians to plan radiation treatments with pinpoint accuracy, improving the ability to cure many forms of cancer while avoiding damage to healthy tissue |
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Shenda M. Baker |
Harvey Mudd College |
Department of Chemistry |
Los Alamos National Laboratory |
for the use of neutron scattering measurements of solid-solid and solid-liquid interfaces to study and improve the properties of advanced materials |
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Richard A. Cairncross |
University of Delaware |
Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Sandia National Laboratories |
for the advancement of direct simulation computational technology for manufacturing processes of critical importance to the Weapons Complex |
