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Awards

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2007 APS Fellow - Kent Irwin

For world-leading technical contributions and leadership in applying transition-edge superconducting sensors to materials and nuclear

2007 APS Fellow - Alan Migdall

For the development of parametric down conversion and correlated-photon generation for metrology, cryptography, communications, and

2006 APS Fellow - William Ott

For sustained leadership of the research and service programs of the Physics Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and

2005 APS Fellow - Eric Shirley

For important contributions to the computation of the optical properties of solids from the infrared to the x-ray spectral regions.

2004 APS Fellow - John Gillaspy

For providing fundamental insights into the radiation and collisional properties of very highly charged ions through pioneering research

2004 APS Fellow - Herbert Bennett

For insights into solid-state materials and the development of physical models that led to improved performance of electronic, magnetic, and

PopSci's 2nd Annual Brilliant 10

He's harnessed the bizarre quantum world and made it do his bidding. A century after the discovery of quantum mechanics, physicists are