David A. Shirley

(Science)

Klaus Halbach

(Instrumentation)

Tim Renner

(Service)

2012 ALS User Meeting Awards

Carl Percival, Dudley Shallcross, Craig Taatjes and David Osborn (Sandia), for making the first direct measurements of the reactions of Criegee intermediates, and showing that their impact on tropospheric chemistry and climate may be substantially greater than previously assumed.

2012 ALS User Meeting Awards

Jeff Dickert and Simon Morton of Berkeley Lab’s Physical Biosciences Division for the invention and implementation of the Compact Variable Collimator (CVC), which has led to a dramatic increase in productivity of protein crystallography.

2012 ALS User Meeting Awards

Tolek Tyliszczak, beamline scientist at the ALS Molecular Environmental Sciences (MES) beamline, a leading national resource in the field of soft x-ray synchrotron radiation research.

Subrata Chakraborty

For “the design and execution of the most important and difficult experiment relevant to understanding the origin and evolution of the solar system.”

Yi-De Chuang

For "the world-leading achievements that have revolutionized conventional soft x-ray scattering instrumentation and enabled the first time-resolved resonant scattering experiment at the Linac Coherent Light Source.”

Ed Domning and Brian Smith

For "creating solutions using LabView that enable users to automate experimental endstations and synchronize them with accelerator operations.” To quote from the nomination, “Their skill, dedication, and calmness in finding solutions helps users achieve their scientific goals and underscores the results-oriented attitude of the Advanced Light Source.”

Hoi-Ying Holman

For pioneering study of living cells and their response to environmental stimuli using synchrotron-based FTIR spectromicroscopy

W. Chau, Erik Anderson, Weilun Chao, Peter Fischer, Tolek Tyliszczak, David Kilcoyne, and Tony Warwick

For hitting the 10-nm resolution milestone with soft-x-ray microscopy

Hanjing Huang and Ken Woolfe

For years of dedication and service in the development and support of the ALS Equipment Protection Systems

Zahid Hasan

For the discovery of topological order in solid state samples and quantum Hall-like behavior without magnetic fields

David Robin, Christoph Steir and ALS Top-off Team

Topoff operation of the ALS

Bruce Rude

Eric Gullikson

Reflectometry calibration worldwide standard

David Malone and Munroe Thomas

Eli Rotenberg and Alessandra Lanzara

For their groundbreaking work measuring the electronic structure of graphene and the use of high resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) to understand the unusual transport properties of graphene associated with Dirac fermions

Senajith Rekawa and Paul Denham

For the development of world-leading instrumentation with nanometer actuation and control, and sub-picoamp current sensing which has enabled the ALS to be the preeminent location for advanced EUV research"

Gary Giangrasso

For his exceptional efforts in providing the highest quality service and assistance to ALS users

Andreas Scholl and Hendrik Ohldag

For their outstanding work in using photoemission electron microscopy in the study of magnetic materials

Carl W. Cork, Robert A. Nordmeyer, Earl W. Cornell, Gyorgy P. Snell, John R. Taylor, and Jim O’Neill

For their pioneering development of automated crystal-mounting robots for high-throughput macromolecular crystallography

Warren E. Byrne

For his exceptional efforts in providing the highest quality beam and assistance to ALS users

For surprising and far-reaching discovery of enols in flames

Elke Arenholz (ALS) and Soren Prestemon (Engineering Division)

For the design and implementation of a vector magnetometer for soft x-ray studies

Andrea Cavalleri (Materials Sciences Division)

Xing-Jiang Zhou (Stanford University and Berkeley Lab)

For Outstanding Science for his angle-resolved photoemission studies of high-temperature superconductors

Mark Le Gros (Physical Biosciences Division)

For developing an automated tomography station for x-ray microscopy of biological materials

Donna Hamamoto (ALS Beamline Coordination

Nora Berrah (Western Michigan University), John Bozek (ALS), Carmen Cisneros (Universidad Nacional Autònoma de Mexico), Aaron Covington (Lake Tahoe Community College), and Ron Phaneuf (University of Nevada, Reno)

Harald Ade (North Carolina State University), Peter Hitchcock (McMaster University, Canada), David Kilcoyne (North Carolina State University), Tolek Tyliszczak (Berkeley Lab), Tony Warwick (ALS), and the STXM Team

For the design and implementation of advanced interferometrically controlled scanning transmission x-ray microscopes

Gary Mitchell and Ed Rightor (Dow Chemical Company)

For their research on superabsorbent polymers

Harry Noller (University of California, Santa Cruz) note: original excel did not match

For the solution of the complete ribosome structure at a resolution that allowed determination of many of its component parts.

Henry Chong, Sasha Zholents, Robert Schoenlein, Roger Falcone, Aaron Lindenberg, Steve Johnson, Philip Heimann, Marc Hertlein, Max Zolotorev, and Ernie Glover, Zenghu Chang

Two teams shared this year’s prize. One team, led by Roger Falcone, developed streak camera techniques in combination with x-ray diffraction to study the dynamics of structural phase transformations at picosecond time resolution. The other team, led by Robert Schoenlein, developed time-slicing techniques to produce subpicosecond synchrotron radiation pulses.

Art Robinson

For his work with user groups and ALS staff in developing scientific proposals submitted to funding agencies and for contributions promoting the ALS in general.

Roland Kawakami, Z.-Q. Qiu (both of the University of California, Berkeley), and Eli Rotenberg (ALS)

For their work in fabricating novel multilayer magnetic quantum well samples and using photoelectron spectroscopy to measure their fundamental properties

Simone Anders, Rob Duarte, Greg Morrison, Howard Padmore (all of the ALS), and Mike Scheinfein (Arizona State University)

for development of the PEEM2 photoemission electron microscope.

Stephen Kevan (University of Oregon) Eli Rotenberg, and Anders Nilsson (Uppsala University, Sweden)

For performing a suite of state-of-the-art experiments measuring the electronic structures from surfaces of materials. Anders Nilsson was recognized for groundbreaking experiments in soft x-ray fluorescence, specifically the nature of chemical bonds at surfaces

Ken Goldberg and Patrick Naulleau of the Center for X-Ray Optics

For their work in extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) interferometry

Tim Renner

For his dynamic efforts as a member of the ALS Experimental Systems Group

Ray Thatcher, Cheryl Hauck, and Gary Giangrasso of the ALS Beamlines Operations Section

For outstanding service to users on the experimental floor

Jeff Kortright, Marybeth Rice, Keith Franck

polarizing multilayer optics

Werner Meyer-Ilse & Hector Medecki (both of LBNL's Center for X-Ray Optics)

For their x-ray microscope, the XM-1. Its design allows users to alternate visible-light and x-ray microscopy for superior resolution with minimal damage to samples.