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Emil Simiu
No full textEMIL SIMIU
NBS/NIST: 1971-2022
INDUCTED: 2024
B: 1934, Bucharest, Romania
EDUCATION:
Bucharest Construction Institute, BS (Structural Engineering), 1956
Brooklyn Polytechnic University, MS (Applied Mechanics), 1968
Princeton University, PhD (Civil Engineering), 1971
CITATION: For outstanding technical leadership in developing innovative solutions and standards in wind engineering for improved design and construction practices, leading to resilient, safe, and cost-effective structures
POSITIONS HELD AT NBS/NIST:
NAS/NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate, Building Research Division, Institute for Applied Technology (IAT), 1971-1973
Research Engineer, Center for Building Technology, IAT/National Engineering Laboratory (NEL), 1973-1988
NIST Fellow, NEL/Building and Fire Research Laboratory/Engineering Laboratory, 1988-2022
HONORS:
American Society of Professional Engineers, U.S. Federal Engineer of the Year Award (1984)
U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medals (1989, 2005, and 2018)
ASCE Inaugural Robert H. Scanlan Medal (2003)
NIST Bronze Medal (2006)
Japan Association for Wind Engineering Prize (2006)
Dynastic Order of the Crown of Romania (2015)
Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers
MEMBERSHIPS:
American Society of Civil Engineers
American Nuclear Society Standard Committee ANSI/ANS-2.3
Licensed Professional Engineer, State of New York
PUBLICATIONS:
More than 415 publications and multiple technical books including:
Simiu, E., Chaotic Transitions in Deterministic and Stochastic Dynamical Systems: Applications of Melnikov Processes in Engineering, Physics, and Neuroscience, Princeton Univ. Press., Applied Mathematics Series (2002)
Simiu, E., and Miyata, T., Design of Buildings and Bridges for Wind: A Practical Guide for ASCE-7 Standard Users and Designers of Special Structures, John Wiley & Sons Inc. (2006)
Simiu, E. and Yeo, D., Wind Effects on Structures: Modern Structural Design for Wind, John Wiley & Sons Ltd. (2019)
Simiu, E., “Aeroelasticity in Civil Engineering”, A Modern Course in Aeroelasticity, Springer International Publishing, 279-344, (2021
Oral History Interview of Cita M. Furlani, April 12, 2024
No full textCita M. Furlani was a computer scientist and director of the NIST Information Technology Laboratory from 2006-2012. She had previously served as the NIST Chief Information Officer from 2002-2005, and as Acting Director of the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) and Director of the ATP Information Technology and Electronics Office. She first joined the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in 1981 to work in the Automated Manufacturing Research Facility, and later was a computer scientist and group leader in the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory. She began her career at the Army’s Diamond Ordnance Fuze Laboratory in 1960, then located on the NBS campus in Washington, DC. Furlani earned an M.S. in electronics and computer engineering from George Mason University and a B.A. in physics and mathematics from Texas Christian University
Kent B. Rochford
No full textKENT B. ROCHFORD
NBS/NIST Boulder/Gaithersburg:
1992-2000, 2002-2012, 2014-2018
INDUCTED: 2024
B: 1960, Phoenix, Arizona
EDUCATION:
Arizona State University, BS, (Electrical Engineering), 1982
University of Arizona, MS, (Optical Sciences), 1987
University of Arizona, PhD, (Optical Sciences), 1990
University of Colorado, MBA, 2006
CITATION: For critical leadership to advance NIST’s measurement science mission and advance exemplary outcomes in challenging assignments related to new technical programs, safety, and security management
POSITIONS HELD AT NBS/NIST:
Electronics Engineer, Electromagnetic Technology Division/Optoelectronics Division, Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory (EEEL), 1992-1997
Project Leader, Optoelectronics Division, EEEL, 1997-2000
Senior Scientist, Optoelectronics Division, EEEL, 2002
Chief, Optoelectronics Division, EEEL, 2003-2008
Acting Director, Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory, 2008-2010
Chief, Quantum Electronics and Photonics Division, Physical Measurement Laboratory, 2010-2012
Director, NIST-Boulder Laboratories 2014-2016; (acting 2008-2012)
Founding Director, Communications Technology Laboratory, 2014-2016
Associate Director for Laboratory Programs/Principal Deputy, 2016-2018
Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology & acting NIST Director, 2017
HONORS:
NIST Bronze Medal (1998)
NIST Building Tomorrow’s Workplace Award (2004)
U.S. Department of Commerce Silver Medal (2012)
Fellow: Optical Society of America (2019) and Chinese Optical Society (2019)
University of Arizona Alumnus of the Year (2024)
MEMBERSHIPS:
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics
Committee on Technical Assessment of the Capital Facility Needs of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2023)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
PUBLICATIONS:
More than 85 publications including:
Rochford, K.B., Rose, A.H., Deeter, M.N., and Day, G.W., “Faraday Effect Current Sensor with Improved Sensitivity–bandwidth Product”, Optics Letters 19, 1903-1905 (1994)
Rochford, K.B., and Dyer, S.D., “Demultiplexing of Interferometrically Interrogated Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors Using Hilbert Transform Processing”, J. Lightwave Technology 17 831-836 (1999)
Rochford, K.B., and Wang, C.M., “Accurate Interferometric Retardance Measurements”, Applied Optics 36, 6473-6479 (1997)
Dyer, S.D., and Rochford, K.B., “Low-coherence Interferometric Measurements of the Dispersion of Multiple Fiber Bragg Gratings”, IEEE Phot. Tech. Lett. 13, 230-232 (2001)
Rose, A.H., Etzel, S.M., and Rochford, K.B., “Optical Fiber Current Sensors in High Electric Field Environments”, J. Lightwave Technology 17, 1042-1048 (1999
Oral history interview of Joe Reader, Nov. 28, 2023 (Transcript)
No full textOral history interview of Joe Reader conducted on November 28, 2023, by the NIST Research Library and the NIST Standards Alumni Association. Joe Reader is a spectroscopist who worked at NIST from 1963 until his retirement in 2014. He has been a guest researcher in the Atomic Spectroscopy Group of the Quantum Measurement Division, NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory, since 2014. Joe discusses his early research at Purdue University; projects for the Hubble Space Telescope; constructing spectrographs for the then-new NBS Gaithersburg labs; research at Los Alamos; a scientist-exchange trip to the Soviet Union and trips to France and Sweden; his ownership of the company Opthos; projects for the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and at the University of Rochester; work on the NIST Atomic Spectra Database and the Electron Beam Ion Trap (EBIT); helping to build the gym at NIST Gaithersburg; and his participation in an experimental immunotherapy program to treat his leukemia. Joe also shares remembrances of individuals he had worked with at NBS/NIST and their personalities; relates a story about a weapon found in a staff office; and shares stories about the uses of the 12th floor of the NIST Gaithersburg Administration building. Interviewers were Keith Martin, Bert Coursey, Bill Ott, Charles Clark, Tom Lucatorto, and Craig Sansonetti
Lorna T. Sniegoski
No full textLorna T. Sniegoski
NBS/NIST: 1954–1965 and 1974–2004
INDUCTED: 2023
B: 1933, Greeley Colorado
EDUCATION:
Douglass College, Rutgers University, BA (Chemistry), 1955
University of Maryland, PhD (Chemistry), 1960
CITATION: For definitive analytical methods and reference materials that dramatically improve the accuracy and precision of diagnostic instrumentation and clinical measurements for assessing the state of human health
POSITIONS HELD AT NBS/NIST:
Student Trainee, Chemistry Division, Atomic and Radiation Physics Division, 1954
Research Chemist, Organic Chemistry Section, Chemistry Section/Physical Chemistry Division/Analytical Chemistry Division, Institute for Materials Research (IMR), 1955-1965
Research Chemist, Analytical Chemistry Division, IMR/Center for Analytical Chemistry, Organic Analytical Research Division, National Measurement Laboratory/Organic Analytical Research Division and Analytical Chemistry Division, Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory (CSTL), 1974-2004
NIST Associate, Applied Chemicals and Materials Division, Material Measurement Laboratory, 2004-2018
HONORS:
NIST Bronze Medal (1988)
MML Distinguished Associate Award (2014)
MEMBERSHIPS:
American Association of Clinical Chemists (now the Association for Diagnostics and Laboratory Medicine)
American Chemical Society
Sigma Xi
Phi Beta Kappa
PUBLICATIONS:
More than 60 publications including:
Sniegoski, L.T., Frush, H.L., and Isbell, H.S., “Tritium-Labeled Compounds VII. Isotope Effects in the Oxidation of D-Mannitols-C14 and D-Mannitols-t to D-Fructoses”, J. of Res. of NBS, A65, 5, 441 (1961)
Sniegoski, L.T. and Moody, J.R., “Determination of Serum and Blood Densities”, Analytical Chemistry, 51 (9) 1577 (1979)
Sniegoski, L.T., Welch, M.J., Ellerbe, P., and White, E., “Determination of Cholesterol in Human Serum Standard Reference Materials by Isotope Dilution/Mass-Spectrometry”, Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 39, 6, 612 (1988)
Sniegoski, L.T., Byrd, G.D., and White, E., “Synthesis of 3‐Quinuclidinol‐18O, Benzilic‐d5 acid, and 3‐Quinuclidinyl‐18O Benzilate‐d5”, Journal of Labeled Compounds and Radiopharmaceuticals, 27, 9, 983 (1989)
Sniegoski, L.T. and Welch, M.J., “Interlaboratory Studies on the Analysis of Hair for Drugs of Abuse: Results from the Fourth Exercise”, Journal of Analytical Toxicology, 20, 4, 242 (1996
Oral history interview of Joe Reader, Nov. 28, 2023 (Video recording)
No full textOral history interview of Joe Reader conducted on November 28, 2023, by the NIST Research Library and the NIST Standards Alumni Association. Joe Reader is a spectroscopist who worked at NIST from 1963 until his retirement in 2014. He has been a guest researcher in the Atomic Spectroscopy Group of the Quantum Measurement Division, NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory, since 2014. Joe discusses his early research at Purdue University; projects for the Hubble Space Telescope; constructing spectrographs for the then-new NBS Gaithersburg labs; research at Los Alamos; a scientist-exchange trip to the Soviet Union and trips to France and Sweden; his ownership of the company Opthos; projects for the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and at the University of Rochester; work on the NIST Atomic Spectra Database and the Electron Beam Ion Trap (EBIT); helping to build the gym at NIST Gaithersburg; and his participation in an experimental immunotherapy program to treat his leukemia. Joe also shares remembrances of individuals he had worked with at NBS/NIST and their personalities; relates a story about a weapon found in a staff office; and shares stories about the uses of the 12th floor of the NIST Gaithersburg Administration building. Interviewers were Keith Martin, Bert Coursey, Bill Ott, Charles Clark, Tom Lucatorto, and Craig Sansonetti
NIST Oral History Interview with Harry Hertz, October 30, 2023 - Video Recording
No full textOral history of Harry Hertz conducted by the NIST Research Library and the NIST Standards Alumni Association on October 30, 2023. Harry Hertz worked at NBS/NIST from 1973-2013 as a research chemist; laboratory administrator; and director of the Baldrige N
NIST Oral History Interview with Harry Hertz, October 30, 2023 - Transcript
No full textOral history of Harry Hertz conducted by the NIST Research Library and the NIST Standards Alumni Association on October 30, 2023. Harry Hertz worked at NBS/NIST from 1973-2013 as a research chemist; laboratory administrator; and director of the Baldrige National Quality Award Program. Hertz shares stories about his research trips to Alaska to measure baseline pollution levels; relates a near-death experience while collecting environmental samples in the Bahamas; discusses the NIST environmental specimen bank, the Love Canal controversy, and testing the White House water supply; and details his move from bench scientist to administrator and his role as director of the Baldrige National Quality Award Program including the development, challenges, and evolution of that program. Interviewers were Keith Martin, Curt Reimann, Willie May, Barry Diamondstone, Bert Coursey, and Jackie Calhoun
B. James Filla
No full textB. JAMES FILLA
NBS/NIST Boulder: 1982–2021
INDUCTED: 2023
B: 1951, Brush, Colorado
EDUCATION:
University of Colorado, BS (Chemical Engineering), 1983
CITATION:
For pioneering the use of laboratory automation software at NIST to profoundly improve the efficiency and precision of measurement systems throughout the organization
POSITIONS HELD AT NBS/NIST:
Student, Center for Thermodynamics and Molecular Science, National Measurement Laboratory (NML), 1982-1983
Chemical Engineer, Chemical Engineering Science Division, National Engineering Laboratory/NML/Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory, 1983-1991
Materials Research Engineer, Materials Reliability Division, Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory, 1992-1999
IT Specialist, Information Technology Laboratory/Research Services Office, Office of Information Systems Management, 2000-2021
HONORS:
Session Chairman - Ceramics, 11th Symposium on Thermophysical Properties (1991)
NIST 2010 Strategic Plan Initiative, People-Strategic Focus Area (2000)
U.S. Department of Commerce Silver Medal (2018)
Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
PUBLICATIONS:
More than 50 publications and a patent including:
Clark, A.V., Schramm, R.E., Schaps, S.R., and Filla, B.J., “Safety Assessment of Railroad Wheels Through Roll-by Detection of Tread Cracks”, Proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering, 2458 (1995)
Filla, B.J., “A Steady-State High-Temperature Apparatus for Measuring Thermal Conductivity of Ceramics”, Review of Scientific Instruments, 68 (7) (1997)
Cheng, Y.W., Tobler, R.L, Filla, B.J., and Coakley, K.J., “Constitutive Behavior Modeling of Steels Under Hot-Rolling Conditions”, NIST Technical Note 1500-6, Materials Reliability Series (1999)
Goodrich, L.F., Cheggour, N., Stauffer, T.C., Filla, B.J., and Lu, X.F., “Kiloampere, Variable-Temperature, Critical-Current Measurements of High-Field Superconductors”, J. of Res. of NIST 118 (2013)
Johnson, A.N., Shinder, I.I., Filla, B.J., Boyd, J.T., Bryant, R., Moldover, M.R., and Martz, T.D., “Non-Nulling Measurements of Flue Gas Flows in a Coal-Fired Power Plant Stack”, Proceedings of the Flomeko 18th International Flow Measurement Conference, Lisbon, Portugal (2019)
Shinder, I.I., Johnson, A.N., and Filla, B.J., Non-Nulling Gas Velocity Measurement Apparatus and Performing Non-Nulling Measurement of Gas Velocity Parameters, U.S. Patent 11,525,840 (December 13, 2022
Piotr A. Domanski
No full textPIOTR A. DOMANSKI
NBS/NIST: 1983–2022
INDUCTED: 2023
B: 1947, Gdansk, Poland
EDUCATION:
Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, MS (Mechanical Engineering), 1972
Catholic University of America, PhD (Mechanical Engineering), 1982
CITATION:
For 40 years of high-impact innovative research that enabled significant improvements in energy efficiency of air-conditioning and refrigeration equipment, and technical leadership that facilitated the critical transition to environmentally safe refrigerants
POSITIONS HELD AT NBS/NIST:
Mechanical Engineer, Thermal Machinery Group, Center for Building Technology, National Engineering Laboratory/Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL), 1983-1994
Leader, Thermal Machinery Group, Building Environment Division, BFRL/HVAC&R Equipment Performance Group, Energy and Environment Division, Engineering Laboratory (EL), 1995-2019
NIST Fellow, HVAC&R Equipment Performance Group, Building Energy and Environment Division, EL, 2018-2022
HONORS:
NIST Bronze Medals (1991 and 2016)
NIST William P. Slichter Award (1995)
International Institute of Refrigeration Science and Technology Medal (2003), Wilbur T. Pentzer Achievement and Leadership Award (2012), Medal of Merit (2023)
U.S. Department of Commerce Silver Medals (2005 and 2009)
Fellow ASHRAE (2007), Distinguished Service Award (2007), Exceptional Service Award (2016)
Washington Academy of Sciences Award for Engineering Sciences (2016)
U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal (2017)
MEMBERSHIPS:
ASHRAE
International Institute of Refrigeration
Washington Academy of Sciences
PUBLICATIONS:
More than 230 publications and two patents, including:
Domanski, P.A. and McLinden, M.O., “A Simplified Cycle Simulation Model for the Performance Rating of Refrigerants and Refrigerant Mixtures”, Int. J. Ref., 15 (2) 81-88 (1992)
Domanski, P.A., Yashar, D., Kaufman, K.A., and Michalski, R.S., “An Optimized Design of Finned-Tube Evaporators Using the Learnable Evolution Model”, HVAC&R Research 10(2), 201-212 (2004)
Domanski, P.A., Yashar, D.A., and Wojtusiak, J., EVAP-COND, Version 4.0; Simulation Models for Finned-Tube Heat Exchangers with Circuitry Optimization, NIST/EL (2016)
McLinden, M.O., Brown, J.S., Brignoli, R., Kazakov, A.F., and Domanski, P.A., “Limited Options for Low-global-warming-potential Refrigerants”, Nature Communications 8(1) 14476 (2017)
Domanski P.A., Brignoli, R., Brown, J.S., Kazakov, A.F., and McLinden, M.O., “Low-GWP Refrigerants for Medium and High-pressure Applications”, Int. J. Ref., 84 198-209 (2017)
Domanski, P.A. and Yana Motta, S.F., “Low-GWP Refrigerants Status and Outlook”, 48th Informatory Note on Refrigeration Technologies, International Institute of Refrigeration, Paris, France (2022