(NCSL International: Boulder, Colorado) -- The William A. Wildhack Award is presented annually to recognize outstanding contributions to the field of metrology and measurement science, consistent with the goals of the National Conference of Standards Laboratories International.

This year’s winner, Charles D. Ehrlich, started at NIST in November 1984. He began his career at NIST in the vacuum group, and established a leak standards calibration service, for which he was awarded a Department of Commerce Bronze Medal. In 1987 he became group leader of the NIST pressure group. For the past 11 years, he has spent most of his time working on international legal metrology issues, first as deputy chief and then chief of the NIST technical standards activities program, and later as the group leader for the International Legal Metrology Group.

For more than seven years he has served on behalf of the U.S. Department of State as the U.S. member of the international committee on legal metrology, which is the oversight body of the International Organization of Legal Metrology. He currently serves on the OIML presidential council, representing U.S. stakeholder interests.

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