Awards Received by NIST Employees

black circle. big white and gold lowercase a in the middle. Around the edges: 28th annual video excellence in white. Gold box at bottom that includes black words: The Communicator Awards

PAO, PML Receive 2022 Communicators Award of Excellence for Video Animation

The Communicator Awards is the largest and most competitive awards program honoring creative excellence for communications professionals.

Gray ovals on blue background are linked to curved gray lines.

Physics World 2021 Breakthrough of the Year

The Breakthrough of the Year and the nine runners-up are selected by five Physics World editors from a list of nearly 600 research updates published on the website this year.

2022 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics - Jun Ye

The Breakthrough Prize recognizes groundbreaking discoveries in Fundamental Physics, Life Sciences and Mathematics. The world’s largest science prize, each of the five main Breakthrough Prizes is $3 million.

PLEASE NOTE: This collection is not comprehensive. Most of the awards highlighted in these pages are recent. We are working to make the collection more complete.

2022 Highly Cited Researcher - Hui Wu

Recognizing the true pioneers in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank

2022 Highly Cited Researcher - Wei Zhou

Recognizing the true pioneers in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank

2022 Outstanding Service in Support of NIST Scientists - Alan Ye

For outstanding service in support of NIST scientists.

2023 Optica Fellow - Alexey Gorshkov

JQI Fellow Alexey Gorshkov was named a 2023 fellow of Optica, the organization formerly known as the Optical Society of America. Gorshkov

2023 Optica Fellow - Thomas A. Germer

For pioneering contributions to interpretation of polarized reflection and scattering from rough and contaminated surfaces.

Awards Received by NIST Employees

Share