On Dec. 10, 2015, the most advanced laboratory building at the NIST campus in Boulder, CO, was renamed after legendary NIST laboratory director Katharine Blodgett Gebbie. Currently a NIST senior advisor, Gebbie is an astrophysicist by training and has worked for NIST for more than 45 years. She directed 2 large NIST operating units of several hundred researchers each. Under her leadership, NIST staff won 4 Nobel Prizes in Physics from 1997–2012 as well as 2 MacArthur Fellowships.