Recognition

Four Livermore researchers have been named Distinguished Members of Technical Staff.

LLNL's John Nasstrom received the NNSA Administrator’s Distinguished Service Gold Award.

Lawrence Livermore chemist Dawn Shaughnessy, whose team helped discover six new elements on the periodic table, has been elected a fellow of the American Chemical Society.

Retired physicist Bruce Cohen has been selected as the recipient of the 2018 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society’s Charles K. Birdsall Award .

Lawrence Livermore magnetic fusion physicist Max Fenstermacher has been awarded the 2018 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research from the American Physical Society.

Tammy Ma, a plasma physicist at Lawrence Livermore, has been named a recipient of the prestigious Department of Energy Office of Science Early Career Research Program.

Fady Najjar was named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Two researchers affiliated with Lawrence Livermore, a current employee and a retiree, have been named fellows of the international Combustion Institute (link is external) (CI).

Charles Orth, a physicist with Livermore for more than 40 years, was presented with the 2017 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award.

Marisol Gamboa, computer scientist and associate division leader for the Global Security Computing Applications Division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, was selected to serve as a role model to young women.