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Yiming Qiu wins Sigma Xi Award



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Dr. Yiming Qiu has been named the recipient of the 2010 Award for Scientific Support by the NIST chapter of Sigma Xi. As an instrument scientist for the Disk Chopper Spectrometer (DCS), Dr. Qiu assists visiting scientists from academia, industry, and government in all aspects of their experiments, from proposal writing through planning, execution, and interpretation, to write-up for publication. Yiming is also an internationally recognized expert in the application of neutron scattering techniques to condensed matter physics so he is a unique resource to help users in all aspects of conducting world class research with neutrons. In particular Dr. Qiu was cited for his outstanding technical support of sophisticated sample environments, including capabilities for very low temperatures and high magnetic fields, and for his development of "DCS-Mslice", a sophisticated computer code that makes the reduction and visualization of large data sets straightforward.

In the past nine years he has co-authored 70 publications including 25 in Physical Review Letters, mostly with scientific users of DCS. This extensive publication list is testimony to the substantial contribution that Yiming has made to support scientific research at NIST. Collin Broholm, Gerhard H. Dieke Professor of Physics at Johns Hopkins University, notes that "Yiming's tireless work as an instrument scientist has been essential to realize the potential for science on DCS and has introduced a wide range of new users to single crystal time-of-flight neutron scattering."


 


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