ORNL honors its best at 1998 Awards Night

Representing ORNL's "of the year" winners at Awards Night, flanked on the back row by ORNL Director Al Trivelpiece (left) and Energy and Environment Sector President Bob Stevens, were (back row, second from left) Jim Rushton, R&D leadership; Klaus H. Guber and Robert R. Spencer, co-authors; Steve Nagler, scientist; (front row) William C. Cochran, operations improvement; Howard D. Haynes, inventor; and Timothy D. Burchell and James D. Klett, co-engineers.—Photo by Jim Richmond

Community Service Award

• J. Kenneth Davis. For sustained, noteworthy participation in the Angel Flight program in which private-aircraft owners donate their time and the use of their aircraft to transport needy persons for medical treatment

• Ella Hawkins DuBose. For outstanding volunteer contributions supporting African American programs for young people in the Oak Ridge community

Leadership Award

• Bill R. Appleton. For skillfully applying technical expertise, negotiating skills and tireless efforts to bring the Spallation Neutron Source to Oak Ridge

• Barbara G. Ashdown. For modeling leadership from the heart and for a commitment to leadership development at ORNL

• Peggy Brown. For a caring, innovative spirit that has led the ORNL Graphic Arts Department to new heights of excellence

• Ronald L. Graves. For leadership and vision in creating DOE's Advanced Propulsion Technology Center at ORNL

• Robert J. Lauf. For outstanding contributions to the success of Metals and Ceramics Division's Ceramic Processing Group through dedicated leadership

• Daniel W. McDonald. For vision and leadership in building teamwork in the Instrumentation and Controls Division and for extending leadership throughout ORNL in reengineering and the Division Director's Caucus

• Marvin L. Poutsma. For exemplary guidance during the integration of the former Chemistry Division and Analytical Chemistry Division into the Chemical and Analytical Sciences Division

• Ajay K. Rathi. For exceptional leadership and achievement in initiating and managing the Intelligent Transportation Systems research program at ORNL and bringing it to national prominence

• James E. Rushton. For extraordinary leadership in addressing uranium-233 issues at ORNL

Operations and Support Award

• John F. Alexander. For notable, sustained advancement of nuclear and radiation safety in ORNL's operations

• Sherry L. Byerly. For service as the key administrative hub for ORNL's $12 million Fissile Material Disposition Program

• Steve D. Childs and Patrick D. Howard. For exemplary dedication and contributions supporting operations at the Irradiated Fuels Examination Laboratory

• William C. Cochran. For entrepreneurial vision and initiative in implementing a computer printer repair program

• A. Fay Frederick, Robert A. Bryant and Teresa A. Childs. For exceptional contributions toward implementing an interim, reliable records maintenance system at ORNL

• Uri Gat. For excellent leadership in planning and implementing the remediation of five inactive alkali-metal facilities at Y-12

• LeJean M. Hardin, Rosemary R. Adams and Anthony B. Hopwood. For expert graphic arts contributions and dedicated effort to the Marilyn Lloyd Dedication

• Tom Karaus, E. Sue Bolce, Timothy E. Golden and Thomas W. Mitchell. For vision, initiative and cooperation in establishing ORNL's new capability for producing custom-tailored computers and computer upgrade services

• Philip Kirkham. For outstanding contributions toward the completion of upgrades at ORNL's Process Waste Treatment Plant

• Norm Kurtz. For vision and personal initiative in establishing a cost-effective ORNL computer monitor maintenance shop

• L. M. Long, Robert S. Mynatt, Bob Barnes, Wayne Bolinger, Patrick G. Burns, Doug Byrum, Steve Colburn, Anthony C. Duncan, Verdus Dyke, John Eubanks, Arthur W. Hensley, James R. Hileman, Larry Lawson, Rodney Lawson, Mark S. Luttrell, Jerry L. Martin, Mickey McNabb, Tommy Miner, Jeffrey E. Moody, Steve Owens, Shanon Paskell and Craig E. Richesin. For notable, superb teamwork in accomplishing the changeout of filters for Building 3517

• Becky R. Maggard. For outstanding progression in secretarial skills and organizational capabilities and for making essential contributions and accepting challenging responsibilities in the Highly Enriched Uranium Blend Down Program

• Jim Mathys. For exemplary management of a project to rehabilitate the stack at the ORNL steam plant

• Bradley C. McClelland, John F. Allred, P. T. Barton, Nancy S. Dailey, Terrissa A. Danner, K. G. Edgemon Jr., Donald C. Gregory, Laura A. Hofman, Edith Jones, Sandra B. Kennedy, John M. Norman, Bob Orrin, Monty Ross and David S. Zill. For superior contributions toward implementing a new waste certification program

• J. Doug Miller. For exceptional dedication, creativity, judgment, persistence and leadership in conducting the ORNL safety program

• Ken A. Morgan. For outstanding leadership during the implementation of an upgrade process system at HFIR that resulted in a 100-to-1 volume reduction of low-level waste

• Audrey W. Murphy. For sustained, meritorious performance as administrative secretary in ORNL's Superconductivity Program, ensuring customer satisfaction in seven line organizations, DOE and a large number of industrial partners

• Jane A. Posey. For distinguished and sustained excellence in secretarial support to radiochemical operations and programs in the Chemical Technology Division

• Govind R. Rao, J. A. Biggerstaff, Chiquita P. Bishop, Sebastian Calvo, Rosa Lee Cornett, Benito Gonzalez Dominguez, DeAnna K. Hatmaker, Ella Haynes, Roger Hembree, Kimberly K. Hicks, M. Hotchandani, John A. Keaton Jr., David A. McLaughlin, John L. Miller, Roger D. Myers, Nancy Wakefield Richards and James R. Watts. For exemplary and inspired team contributions in achieving DOE Laboratory Accreditation Program accreditation, establishing ORNL's program as the premier bioassay program in the country

• Waldean Richardson. For outstanding accomplishment in providing the administrative support systems and processes required to merge two R&D divisions

• Stephen Dirk Van Hoesen, J. P. Abston, Curtis L. Fitzgerald, Richard Lee Glassell, Walter H. Glover III, Owen W. Hale, L. Holder Jr., Marshall Johnson, Stephen Killough, Daniel J. Kington, Peter D. Lloyd, Joel Miller, John David Randolph, James E. Rutenber and Harold Toy. For extraordinary contributions toward implementing ORNL's first remotely operated system to successfully clean radioactive tank waste from underground storage tanks

• Regina Violet. For exceptional direction of all clerical work associated with an international symposium while managing multiple administrative tasks for a section office in the Chemical and Analytical Sciences Division

• Mike Walls. For superior contributions toward ensuring that the Price-Anderson Amendments Act is implemented effectively at ORNL

• Philip W. Watts, John K. Arthur, G. Dean Campbell, Fred R. Chattin, W. Doyle Garrett, Ken Guymon, George V. Hogg and Gary W. Kelly. For outstanding oversight and planning to ensure the successful and safe completion of the Melton Valley Line Item upgrades at the Radiochemical Engineering Development Center

• Barry G. Whitson. For initiative, planning and expertise in coordinating the replacement of a PCB-containing power supply ahead of schedule and significantly below budget

Technical Achievement Award

• W. Scott Aaron and Leon A. Zevenbergen. For notable contributions toward developing a process to produce enriched stable isotope metal microspheres

• Glenn O. Allgood, William H. Andrews Jr., Dwight A. Clayton, David K. Mee, Larry Mooney and Ganesh S. Rao. For outstanding contributions to the development of a laser-based, automated, cost-effective device for fabric inspection and quality measurement

• Larry R. Baylor, James A. Moore, Michael J. Paulus, Michael L. Simpson, C. E. (Tommy) Thomas Jr. and E. Voelkl. For extraordinary contributions toward developing an innovative concept for a high-throughput e-beam lithography system to produce next-generation semiconductors

• Martin Beckerman. For writing the scientific monograph, Adaptive Cooperative Systems, the first comprehensive, fully integrated, multidisciplinary treatment of trends in self-organizing processes

• Charles L. Britton Jr., Gilbert M. Brown, Bill Bryan, Robert L. Jones, James A. Moore, Patrick I. Oden, Stephen F. Smith, Thomas G. Thundat and R. J. (Bruce) Warmack. For the notable development of the world's first electrically readable microcantilever mercury detector

• Charles L. Britton Jr., Michael S. Emery, M. Nance Ericson, S. Shane Frank, R. G. Jackson, James A. Moore, Michael L. Simpson, Melissa C. Smith, R. S. Smith, Alan L. Wintenberg and Glenn R. Young. For the development of the world's first multichannel, custom chipset with no "dead time" for collider physics

• Gerard J. Bunick, Joel M. Harp and David E. Timm. For discovering macromolecular crystal annealing, a new technique in the determination of biological crystal structures

• Timothy D. Burchell and James W. Klett. For developing new and novel carbon materials for commercial applications

• Winston C. H. Chen. For developing the laser desorption mass spectrometry program for the Human Genome Project, disease diagnosis and DNA fingerprinting for forensic applications

• Kevin M. Cooley. For exceptional technical support toward the development of vapor-deposited coatings for corrosion and thermal protection

• C. Stuart Daw, Johney B. Green Jr. and John F. Thomas. For contributions toward developing noisy chaos, the key to successfully controlling internal combustion engines in the lean-burn regime

• Andy Fadnek. For outstanding technical support to the ORNL high-temperature superconducting development program, including extraordinary contributions toward producing the largest-ever high T_c transformer prototype

• Valerii V. Fedorov. For exceptional dedication to the growth and education of optimal experimental design theory

• Janie Gardner. For preparing color micrographs that appeared on the covers of five national publications in 1997

• Richard H. Goulding, Lee A. Berry, John B. O. Caughman II and James A. Moore. For innovative approaches that achieve robust operation and control of advanced plasma-processing conditions

• Klaus H. Guber, Paul E. Koehler and Robert R. Spencer. For achieving a measurement that verifies that silicon carbide grains from meteorites arise from the atmosphere of a red-giant star

• Howard D. Haynes. For pioneering efforts in developing a new R&D area, motor current signature analysis

• Tony E. Haynes and Aditya Agarwal. For contributions toward the development of ion-implantation technologies for silicon integrated circuit manufacturing

• Dale K. Hensley. For developing a novel time-shared foreline and roughing vacuum system for the Surface Modification and Characterization Research Center

• Kay Houser and Sarah Shinpock. For outstanding technical achievement in developing and implementing procedures for freezing mouse sperm, subsequently reconstituting mice through artificial insemination and keeping accurate records of all experimental parameters

• Randy Howell, Kenneth S. Blakely, David C. Harper and Edward C. Hatfield. For materials processing and properties development supporting the production of precision heating elements for Philip Morris U.S.A.

• Michael A. Huston. For important contributions, with major policy implications, toward ensuring that ecological science remains on a sound path toward understanding biodiversity

• Ralph N. McGill, Norberto Domingo, Karren L. More and John M. Storey. For pioneering technical accomplishments in advanced automotive catalysts for No_x reduction

• April Meeks. For exemplary performance in developing quality assurance programs for analytical radioactive waste characterization

• Michael K. Miller. For sustained contributions toward establishing the ORNL atom probe facility as a center for atom probe research with the best mass resolution in the world

• Stephen E. Nagler, Ted Barnes, Andrew Garrett, Brian C. Sales and Alan Tennant. For advances in the understanding of quantum magnetism by revising the model for magnetic interactions in the material vandyl pyrophosphate and by discovering a new triplet magnetic excitation

• Fang Zheng Peng. For inventions that have made ORNL a leader in revolutionizing power electronic industries associated with inverters and power distribution

• Tommy J. Phelps, David R. Cole and Jizhong Zhou. For extraordinary contributions to the discovery, description and evolutionary implications of novel thermophilic, iron-reducing bacteria

• François G. Pin. For sustained, outstanding performance and visionary leadership to ORNL in the field of robotics and intelligent systems R&D

• François G. Pin, Joel B. Chesser, David L. Conner, Karen Harber, John F. Jansen, Randall Lind, Terry L. Ray and John C. Rowe. For superior contributions to the development and demonstration of the Advanced Telerobotics Technology Demonstrator

• Peter T. A. Reilly, Rainer A. Gieray, J. Michael Ramsey, William B. Whitten and M. Yang. For experiments that allow real-time identification of molecular species in individual aerosol particles

• J. Lee Robertson. For computer analysis techniques for beam-tube design resulting in substantial gains in neutron-scattering intensities at HFIR

• James L. Stephenson Jr. and Scott A. McLuckey. For a landmark paper that outlines the first demonstration of the use of gaseous ion/molecule chemistry to measure both the molecular weight and the number of basic sites within a molecule in about 0.1 second

• Kenneth W. Tobin, Shaun S. Gleason and Thomas P. Karnowski. For extraordinary contributions developing a pattern-recognition system for semiconductor manufacturing yield improvement

• Srinath Viswanathan. For developing and optimizing the metal-compression-forming process for the manufacture of lightweight safety-critical components of automobiles

• Richard F. Wood, David B. Geohegan, Jean-Noel Leboeuf and Alexander Puretzky. For developing an ingenious multiple-scattering model of the critical plume-splitting phenomenon in pulsed-laser ablation

• Ying Xu. For a novel computational method that enables building accurate models of genetic structures, discoveries of new genes in the human genome and a comprehensive view of human genome data