I knew about the award... and who had nominated him... but had forgotten it. Thanks for the reminder.
This is similar to McCrone ony publishing his findings in his in house magazine, "The Microscopist," published and edited by McCrone.
Has McCrone done good work on other topics? I think so... but not on this. Unfortunately, allowing his biases to invade his work, such as appears to have happened with his Shroud work, will tend to discount his other good work.
There is almost a rabid aversion to the Shroud and Shroud research among atheists as it seems to challenge their world view. Did you read the skeptic links from Steven Schafersman's site? Whow... vitriol everywhere.
You should be less impressed, because grey_whiskers completely made it up.