LANL scientist gets top award

Jaqueline Kiplinger, a Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow within the Inorganic, Isotope and Actinide Chemistry Group, is the recipient of the 2017 Violet Diller Professional Excellence Award, given triennially by Iota Sigma Pi, the National Honor Society of Women in Chemistry.

The award recognizes contributions to chemistry that have had widespread significance to the scientific community or society on a national level.

“The Violet Diller Professional Excellence Award recognizes Kiplinger’s outstanding achievements in science, service to the broad chemistry community and mentoring of early career researchers,” said Alan Bishop, principal associate director of Science, Technology and Engineering at Los Alamos.

“As a pioneer in uranium and thorium chemistry, her research has significantly expanded the understanding of actinide and lanthanide chemical bonding and reactivity,” he said.