The US Department of Commerce has awarded its Gold Medal for Exceptional Service to the following National Bureau of Standards personnel:
Karl G. Kessler, chief of the Bureau's Spectroscopy Section, for exceptional originality, scientific achievement, and leadership in the development of atomic beam standards of wavelength and for exceptional contributions to the organization and leadership of research programs to meet the rapidly growing needs of the space sciences for spectroscopic data;
H. William Koch, chief of the High‐Energy Radiation Section, for outstanding scientific administration, research accomplishments in the fields of scintillation spectrometry, high‐energy bremsstrahlung spectra, and attenuation of high‐energy radiation;
Edward W. Cannon, chief of the Applied Mathematics Division, for pioneering in the evaluation and application of electronic digital computers and development of a general computation center;
Earle K. Plyler, chief of the Infrared Spectroscopy Section, for pioneering advances in the physics of infrared radiation and for major advances in instrumentation for infrared spectroscopy;
Kenneth A. Norton of the NBS Boulder Laboratories, for outstanding contributions and leadership in the field of radio propagation research.
