Lew Allen Award
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Lew Allen Award is a medal of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Until 1990 it was called the Director’s Research Achievement Award; it was then renamed in honor of Lew Allen.[1][2] This award recognises significant accomplishments or leadership early in an individual's professional career at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.[3]
Lew Allen Award for Excellence Recipients
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- 1998
- 1999
- 2000
- 2001
- 2002
- 2003
- 2004
- Andrey Matsko
- Alina Moussessian
- Charles Norton
- Michael Seiffert
- 2005
- 2006
- 2007
- Jason Rhodes
- Paul Johnson
- 2008
- 2009
- 2010
- 2011
- Ken Cooper
- Kevin Hand
- Richard Hofer
- Eric Larour
- 2012
- Marina Brozović
- Ian Clark
- Baris Erkmen
- Christian Frankenberg
- 2013
- Abigail Allwood
- Carmen Boening
- Michael Mischna
- David Thompson
- 2014
- Rodney Anderson
- Michelle Gierach
- Robert Hodyss
- 2014
- Aaron Parness, for development of new climbing robots and robotic grippers with widespread application to space and terrestrial exploration
- 2015
- Darmindra Arumugam, for inventing and developing Active and Passive Magneto-Quasi-Static Positioning for long-range near-field positioning for non-line of sight environments
- Sabah Bux, for leadership in the development of novel high performance high temperature nanocomposite bulk thermoelectric materials using advanced synthetic methods
- Damon Landau, for innovation in mission architecting and mission design, and for leadership and creativity in the development of advanced mission concepts
- Jason Williams, for innovative research in ultra-cold atoms, atom interferometry, and fundamental physics
- 2016
- Mathieu Choukroun, for pioneering studies of the physical properties of cryogenic materials and contributions to MIRO and the US Rosetta mission
- Andrew Klesh, for technical leadership of deep space smallsats and under-ice robotic rover technologies in support of terrestrial and outer planets exploration
- Boon Lim, for leadership and technological innovation in the emerging field of microwave remote sensing science on nanosatellites
- David Wiese, for exceptional leadership and research roles in GRACE data processing and Earth gravity science
- 2017
- Piyush Agram, for major contributions to InSAR-based geodetic imaging and geophysical time series analysis
- Nacer Chahat, for demonstrated unique talent as a leader in rapid spacecraft antenna development and telecom systems engineering for CubeSats
- Arezou Khoshakhlagh, for technical innovation in developing the novel Gallium-free antimonides superlattice epitaxial material system for advanced mid-wavelength and long-wavelength infrared detectors
- Sylvain Piqueux, for leadership in the study of surface thermal properties of terrestrial worlds, and support of JPL missions to these bodies
- 2018
- Laura Barge, for pioneering research on the application of electrochemistry to studies of the origin and emergence of life.
- Alex Gardner, for establishing a new unified system architecture to process Cryosphere data, leading to new scientific discoveries related to the evolution of polar ice caps.
- Cecile Jung-Kubiak, for demonstrated excellence in the development of innovative silicon micromachining techniques that have enabled novel electromagnetic, mechanical, and propulsion devices.
- Jose Siles, for the development of high-power ultra-compact room-temperature multi-pixel terahertz sources and receivers for balloon-borne and space instruments.
- 2019
- Davide Farnocchia, for exceptional leadership and research roles in orbit reconstruction and prediction of asteroids and comets.
- Marco Lavalle, for sustained leadership in creating and advancing new Earth-science applications of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar.
- Joseph Masiero, for his work in establishing the physical properties of near-Earth asteroids and the threats they pose to Earth.
- Maria Fernanda Mora, for excellence in the development and validation of chemical analysis methodology and electrophoresis instruments for future life detection missions.
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References
- ^ Kevin R. Grazier; Stephen Cass (2 August 2017). Hollyweird Science: The Next Generation: From Spaceships to Microchips. Springer. p. 236. ISBN 978-3-319-54215-7. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
- ^ National Academy of Engineering (10 October 2011). Memorial Tributes. National Academies Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-309-21309-7. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
- ^ "Lew Allen Jr., Obituary". ArlingtonCemetary.net. Retrieved 7 August 2018.