MicroscopyAwards
Microanalysis Society Awards: 2022 Award Recipients Bradley T. De Gregorio1
* and Heather Lowers2
1U.S. Naval Research Laboratory 2U.S. Geological Survey
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awards@the-mas.org Each year, the Microanalysis Society (MAS) bestows
several major awards during the Microscopy & Microanal- ysis annual meeting. Regrettably, there is never enough time on stage to fully elaborate the recipients’ contribu- tions to the science of microanalysis and the Society. Te information below is intended to rectify this situation with brief biographies and accomplishments of each awardee. MAS award selections are made through a variety of mech- anisms. For example, nominations for the Peter Duncumb Award for Excellence in Microanalysis come directly from the MAS membership, while nominations for the KFJ Heinrich Award come from the MAS Awards Committee via input from the microanalysis community. In addition, nominations for MAS Fellows are also contributed by MAS members. More information on the submission processes and a listing of previous award recipients and MAS Fellows can be found at
https://the-mas.org/awards.
Duncumb Award Te Peter Duncumb Award for Excellence in Micro-
analysis recognizes outstanding achievement by a currently active individual over a sustained period of time in the field of microanalysis through technical accomplishment, leader- ship, educational, and professional activities. Te award is sponsored by MAS Sustaining Member Bruker Nano Inc.
Peter Duncumb Award: Colin MacRae Dr. MacRae is a senior
Colin MacRae, Research Director of Characterisation, CSIRO Mineral Resources.
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principal research scientist with the Commonwealth Science Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), based in Victoria, Australia, where he began his long and prolific career. His earliest research at CSIRO involved using auto- mated mapping of composi- tion using SEM and electron microprobe instruments to solve various industrial and mineral resource problems.
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Not one to shy away from technical challenges and complex microanalysis problems, he helped to accomplish the first integration of a field emission microprobe with multiple solid state silicon driſt detectors for simultaneous, multi-element mapping. Over the course of his career, he has worked on the microanalysis and description of over 25 new minerals, many of which were technically challenging due to their significant water content. Dr. MacRae has been central to the growth of cathodoluminescence (CL) and soſt X-ray emission spectros- copy (SXES) as important microanalytical tools integrated in electron microscopes. He and his team at CSIRO have almost singlehandedly brought back CL spectroscopy to the forefront of microanalysis through innovative technical design and improvement, development of the publicly available CL Lumi- nescence database (luminescence.csiro .au/ luminescence) and analysis soſtware, and organizing the popular Cathodolumi- nescence 2011 topical conference for the MAS. Most recently, he has been working to incorporate CL, SXES, and EDS within a single liquid-N2
-cooled electron microprobe instru-
ment. Dr. MacRae has been heavily involved with microanaly- sis societies throughout his career, being past president of the Australian Microbeam Analysis Society for over a decade, and he currently sits on the board of the International Union of Microbeam Analysis Societies (IUMAS).
Heinrich Award Te KFJ Heinrich Award honors a scientist with less
than 15 years from their terminal degree who has made distinguished technical contributions to the field of micro- analysis.
KFJ Heinrich Award: Jordan Hachtel Jordan Hachtel is a staff scientist at the Center for Nano-
phase Materials Sciences (CNMS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He received his PhD in Physics from Vander- bilt University in 2016 and subsequently joined the CNMS for his postdoctoral research. He joined the permanent staff at Oak Ridge in 2019. Dr. Hachtel has specialized in nanoscale spectroscopy of novel quasiparticles using trans- mission electron microscopy (TEM). Using monochromated electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS), he has expanded
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