2008 NIST PORTRAIT GALLERY NOMINATION INSTRUCTIONS
Instructions
- Nominee must be a former NBS/NIST scientist, engineer or administrator and the nominator must be a present or past NBS/NIST employee. For the information requested below, the Jury, on a case-by-case basis, may consider employment as a guest worker or research associate at NBS/NIST, or with the NBS/NIST-affiliated programs of JILA and CARB, as equivalent to employment at NBS/NIST.
- Nominations shall be received by the SAA Portrait Gallery Committee preferably by email at alumni@nist.gov, or by mail to the SAA Office, A-42 Admin, Mail Stop 0952, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-0952, no later than c.o.b. February 15, 2008 (no exceptions).
- Nomination may not exceed two pages, single spaced, in Times New Roman 12 or similar sized font, with 25 mm minimum margins.
- Nomination must be presented in the format given below, either as an electronic file (preferably), or in hard copy.
- Nomination must be confidential and may not be divulged to the nominee.
1. Nominee’s name and, for a living nominee, address, telephone and email. If the nominee is deceased, please provide, if possible, the name, address, telephone and email for an heir:
2. Years at NBS/NIST: 19yy
3. Citation/Impact (nominee’s claim to honor in thirty or fewer words):
4. Birth date and Birthplace:
5. Education (post secondary):
6. Principal positions held at NBS/NIST, with dates:
7. Outstanding work at NBS/NIST, including scientific, technical, managerial or administrative contributions, and its impacts:
8. Total numbers of publications and patents based on work at NBS/NIST (and list, at most, six significant examples, which may include other important products):
9. Important external professional and government committee memberships and work, while employed at NBS/NIST, and the impacts of this external work:
10. Recognitions, awards and distinctions, within and external to NBS/NIST, as a consequence of work performed at NBS/NIST:
11. Name and contact information for the nominator and for one additional current or former NBS/NIST staff member willing to support the nomination.
December 2007