2020 The Berkeley Lab Prize – Lifetime Achievement Award
Alastair MacDowell
For Alastair’s extraordinary achievements in x-ray instrumentation that resulted in ALS becoming a world leading facility, and for helping to cement the ALS’s standing as one of the core scientific centers at LBNL.
2020 Safety – Award for Exceptional Achievement
This award recognizes the team of Scott Taylor, Doug Taube, David Malone, and Shraddha Ravani for their exceptional service to the ALS user community. They provided the expertise and humor needed to enable 2,000 scientists a year to safely perform outstanding research.
Materials Research Society – Innovation in Materials Characterization Award
For pioneering in situ/operando soft x-ray spectroscopy characterization of interfacial phenomena in energy, catalysis and chemical materials science.