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Harry S. Hertz
No full textHARRY S. HERTZ
NBS/NIST: 1973-2013
INDUCTED: 2014
B: 1947, New York, New York
EDUCATION:
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, BS (Chemistry), 1967
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PhD (Organic Chemistry), 1971
Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, University of Munich, 1971- 1973
Executive Development, National Academy of Public Administration and Federal Executive Institute
CITATION:
For visionary leadership, stewardship, and advocacy in promoting the Baldrige performance excellence framework and concepts nationally and internationally and for exemplary leadership and advancement of the analytical chemical sciences.
POSITIONS HELD AT NBS/NIST:
Research Chemist, Trace Organic Analysis Group, Analytical Chemistry Division, National Measurement Laboratory (NML), 1973-1978
Chief, Organic Analytical Research Division, Center for Analytical Chemistry, NML, 1978-1983
Director, Center for Analytical Chemistry, NML, 1983-1991
Director, Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory, 1991-1992
Deputy Director, Baldrige National Quality Program (BNQP), 1992-1995
Director, Baldrige Performance Excellence Program (formerly BNQP), 1995-2013
Director Emeritus, Baldrige Performance Excellence Program (BPEP), 2013- present
HONORS:
NIST Bronze Medal (1981); Department of Commerce Silver Medal (1986), Gold Medal (1998)
Arthur S. Flemming Award (1986)
Senior Executive Service Meritorious Executive Rank Award (1987)
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1992)
Quality Digest, recognized as one of 15 people driving quality today (October 2005)
Honorary Fellow, American College of Healthcare Executives (2011)
Harry S. Hertz Leadership Award, Foundation for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, namesake and first recipient (2013)
MEMBERSHIPS:
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Chemical Society
American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Sigma Xi
PUBLICATIONS:
More than 50 publications including:
Hertz, H.S., May, W.E., Wise, S.A., Chesler, S.N., “Trace Organic Analysis,” Analytical Chemistry, 50 (4), 428A– 436A (1978)
Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, 2013-2014 Criteria for Performance Excellence, Gaithersburg, MD: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (2013)
Hertz, H.S., “The Future of Baldrige-Based Performance Excellence,” Futurescan 2013 – Healthcare Trends and Implications 2013-2018, 42-48 (2013
Porosity Measurements and Analysis for Metal Additive Manufacturing Process Control
No full textAdditive manufacturing techniques can produce complex, high-value metal parts, with potential applications as critical metal components such as those found in aerospace engines and as customized biomedical implants. Material porosity in these parts is undesirable for aerospace parts - since porosity could lead to premature failure - and desirable for some biomedical implants - since surface-breaking pores allows for better integration with biological tissue. Changes in a part's porosity during an additive manufacturing build may also be an indication of an undesired change in the build process. Here, we present efforts to develop an ultrasonic sensor for monitoring changes in the porosity in metal parts during fabrication on a metal powder bed fusion system. The development of well-characterized reference samples, measurements of the porosity of these samples with multiple techniques, and correlation of ultrasonic measurements with the degree of porosity are presented. A proposed sens
Oral history interview of Mat (Matthew) Heyman, November 19, 2014/ with David Lide, Bill Gadzuk, Jack Rush, Janet Miller, Michael Baum, Kristen Frederick-Frost, Dick Wright
No full textMat Heyman summarizes his 30-year career in media related matters at NBS/NIST from 1978 until his retirement in 2008. He headed up NBS Public and Business Affairs from October 1990 until July 2004 when he became Chief of Staff and served in that position until his retirement in 2008
Jack R. Edmonds
No full textJACK R. EDMONDS
NBS/NIST: 1959-1969
INDUCTED: 2014
B: 1934, Washington, D.C.
EDUCATION:
Duke University (Liberal Arts & Science), 1956
George Washington University, BSc (Mathematics), 1958
University of Maryland, MS (Mathematics), 1959
CITATION:
For fundamental contributions in combinatorial optimization, discrete mathematics, and the theory of computing.
POSITIONS HELD AT NBS/NIST:
Mathematician, Applied Mathematics Division, Institute for Basic Standards, 1959-1969. For part of that time he was on assignment at the RAND Corporation and as a Research Associate at Princeton University.
HONORS:
John von Neumann Theory Prize, INFORMS (1985)
“Eureka! You Shrink,” Fifth Aussois Combinatorial Optimization Workshop, 2001, dedicated to Jack Edmonds
“Paths, Trees, and Flowers” identified as one of NIST’s outstanding publications in A Century of Excellence in Measurements Standards and Technology, NIST SP 958 (2001) Honorary Doctorate: University of Odense (2006)
PUBLICATIONS:
Selected NBS publications include:
Edmonds, Jack, "Paths, Trees, and Flowers", Canad. J. Math. 17, 449-467 (1965)
Edmonds, Jack, "Maximum Matching and a Polyhedron with 0,1-Vertices", J. Res. Natl. Bur. Stand. 69B, 125- 130 (1965)
Edmonds, Jack, "Minimum Partition of a Matroid into Independent Subsets", J. Res. Natl. Bur. Stand. 69B, 67- 72 (1965)
Edmonds, Jack, "Optimum Branchings,” J. Res. Natl. Bur. Stand. 71B, 233-240 (1967)
Edmonds, Jack, “Systems of Distinct Representatives and Linear Algebra,” J. Res. Natl. Bur. Stand. 71B, 241- 245 (1967)
Edmonds, Jack, "Submodular Functions, Matroids, and Certain Polyhedra", Combinatorial Structures and their Applications (Proceedings of the Calgary International Conference on Combinatorial Structures and their Applications, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (1969), Gordon and Breach, New York, pp. 69- 81 (1970)
BOOKS REFERENCING/DESCRIBING JACK EDMONDS’ WORK AT NBS:
50 Years of Integer Programming 1958-2008, 2010; Papadimitriou & Steiglitz, Combinatorial Optimization: Algorithms and Complexity (1982); Lovasz & Plummer, Matching Theory (1986); Grotschel, Lovasz, &Schrijver, Geometric Algorithms and Combinatorial Optimization (1988); Nemhauser & Wolsey, Integer and Combinatorial Optimization (1988); Fujishige, Submodular Functions and Optimization (1991); Lenstra et al, History of Mathematical Programming (1991); Handbook of Combinatorics (1995); West, Graph Theory (2001); Schrijver, Combinatorial Optimization: Polyhedra and Efficiency (2003); Sipser, Introduction to the Theory of Computation (2006); Bondy & Murty, Graph Theory (2008); Frank, Connections in Combinatorial Optimization (2011); Cook, In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman (2012); Korte & Vygen, Combinatorial Optimization (2012
List of Names Mentioned in Oral history interview of John T. Yates, Jr., January 23, 2014 / [persons present]: David Lide, J. William Gadzuk, Cedric Powell, Allan Laufer, Jack Rush.
No full textOral history interview of Dr. John Yates at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD, on Thursday, January 23, 2014. Dr. Yates discusses his distinguished career in the field of surface chemistry/surface science at NBS/NIST from 1963 to 1980
NIST-4 Kibble Balance Wheel and knife edges
No full textThis 60 cm aluminum disk with a diamond turned stainless steel band served as the first balance wheel of the NIST-4 Kibble Balance. Also pictured are the knife edge balances. The full-size Kibble Balance is 2.5 meters (8 feet) tall. The Kibble Balance is an instrument used to realize the new kilogram. It equalizes the weight of a test mass with a force produced when an electrical current is run through a coil of wire immersed in a magnetic field.
References:
Front cover of Physics Today, July 2014.
"First Measurement of the Flux Integral With the NIST-4 Watt Balance," D. Haddad, F. Seifert, L. Chao, A. Cao, G. Sineriz, J. Pratt, D. Newell, and S. Schlamminger, IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas. 64(6), 1642-1649 (2015)
"A Precise instrument to determine the Planck constant, and the future kilogram," D. Haddad, F. Seifert, L. S. Chao, S. Li, D. B. Newell, J. R. Pratt, C. Williams, and S. Schlamminger, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 87, 061301, 14 p. (2016)
"Measurement of the Planck constant at the National Institute of Standards and Technology from 2015 to 2017," D. Haddad, F. Seifert, L. S. Chao, A. Possolo, D. B. Newell, J. R. Pratt, C. J. Williams, and S. Schlamminger, Metrologia 54(5), 633-641 (2017)[H] __[W] __[D] __[Diam] 60.0075 c
Sustainability Characterization for Additive Manufacturing
No full textAdditive manufacturing (AM) has the potential to create geometrically complex parts that require a high degree of customization, using less material and producing less waste. Recent studies have shown that AM can be an economically viable option for use by the industry, yet there are some inherent challenges associated with AM for wider acceptance. The lack of standards in AM impedes its use for parts production since industries primarily depend on established standards in processes and material selection to ensure the consistency and quality. Inability to compare AM performance against traditional manufacturing methods can be a barrier for implementing AM processes. AM process sustainability has become a driver due to growing environmental concerns for manufacturing. This has reinforced the importance to understand and characterize AM processes for sustainability. Process characterization for sustainability will help close the gaps for comparing AM performance to traditional manufacturing methods. Based on a literature review, this paper first examines the potential environmental impacts of AM. A methodology for sustainability characterization of AM is then proposed to serve as a resource for the community to benchmark AM processes for sustainability. Next, research perspectives are discussed along with relevant standardization efforts
Optical Passive Sensor Calibration for Satellite Remote Sensing and the Legacy of NOAA and NIST Cooperation
No full textThis paper traces the cooperative efforts of scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to improve the calibration of operational satellite sensors for remote sensing of the Earth's land, atmosphere and oceans. It gives a chronological perspective of the NOAA satellite program and the interactions between the two agencies' scientists to address pre-launch calibration and issues of sensor performance on orbit. The drive to improve accuracy of measurements has had a new impetus in recent years because of the need for improved weather prediction and climate monitoring. The highlights of this cooperation and strategies to achieve SI-traceability and improve accuracy for optical satellite sensor data are summarized
Recovery of Background Structures in Nanoscale Helium Ion Microscope Imaging
No full textThis paper discusses a two step enhancement technique applicable to noisy Helium Ion Microscope images in which background structures are not easily discernible due to a weak signal. The method is based on a preliminary adaptive histogram equalization, followed by ‘slow motion’ low-exponent Lévy fractional diffusion smoothing. This combined approach is unexpectedly effective, resulting in a companion enhanced image in which background structures are rendered much more visible, and noise is significantly reduced, all with minimal loss of image sharpness. The method also provides useful enhancements of scanning charged-particle microscopy images obtained by composing multiple drift-corrected ‘fast scan’ frames. The paper includes software routines, written in Interactive Data Language (IDL),1 that can perform the above image processing tasks
Oral history interview of John T. Yates, Jr., January 23, 2014 / [persons present]: David Lide, J. William Gadzuk, Cedric Powell, Allan Laufer, Jack Rush
No full textOral history interview of Dr. John Yates at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD, on Thursday, January 23, 2014. Dr. Yates discusses his distinguished career in the field of surface chemistry/surface science at NBS/NIST from 1963 to 1980