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AWARDS

2015 Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award - John Kitching

Kitching with an atomic clock

NIST physicist John Kitching displays the heart of the world's smallest atomic clock. This "physics package" is about the size of a grain of rice.

Credit: ©Geoffrey Wheeler

The award was given "for pioneering work on chip-scale atomic sensors and devices."

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Created September 5, 2017, Updated August 2, 2021
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