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Physical Measurement Laboratory

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Stephen Eckel Receives 2024 PECASE

Stephen Eckel is recognized for his pioneering work in applying cold-atom physics to solve real-world measurement problems, investigating the enabling physics, and leading the development of the first deployable, practical cold-atom-based device with...

2025 SPIE Fellow - Jeeseong Hwang

For distinguished contributions in optics, photonics, and imaging.

2024 - Presidential Rank Award---John Lehman

Recognized with a Distinguished Rank for sustained extraordinary accomplishments.

2024 - Presidential Rank Award---John Kitching

Recognized with a Distinguished Rank for sustained extraordinary accomplishments.

2024 - Arthur S. Flemming Award---Jeffrey Sherman

Recognized for technical and managerial leadership of the atomic clock ensemble that serves as the nation's source of official time.

2024 - Gold Medal Award---Jason Underwood, Albert Rigosi, Alireza Panna, Leon Chao, Dean Jarrett, Randolph Elmquist, Stephan Schlamminger, David Newell, Darine El Haddad

For leveraging quantum physics to develop the world's best standards for the ampere and kilogram, two of the seven fundamental measurement units of science.

2024 - Gold Medal Award---Johannes Hubmayr, James Beall, Shannon Duff, Leila Vale, Michael Link, Tammy Lucas, Michael Vissers, Jeffrey Van Lanen, John Mates, Jason Austermann

For developing the novel sensors that enable the most advanced cosmic microwave background observatory to unravel the mysteries of the early universe.

2024 - Gold Medal Award---Adriana Lita, Sae Woo Nam, Thomas Gerrits

For developing high-efficiency, low-noise, superconducting transition-edge sensors able to count single photons for photonic quantum computers.

2024 - Samuel Wesley Stratton Award---Scott Papp

For pioneering research in the development and applications of microresonator frequency combs and nonlinear nanophotonic systems.

2024 - Safety Award---Peter Lowell, Alvin Flores, John Nibarger

For the development and evolution of a comprehensive safety program for NIST's Boulder Micro-Fabrication Facility cleanroom.

2024 - Jacob Rabinow Applied Research Award---Leon Chao, Zane Comden

For the development of compact Kibble balance technology for mass and torque and its deployment to primary standards laboratories and U.S. industry.

2024 - Dr. Willie E. May Award for Distinguished Career at NIST---Charles Ehrlich

For a career of leadership in the development of measurement services and legal metrology standards foundational to fair international trade.

2024 - Judson C. French Award---Matthew Spidell

For reducing the uncertainty in calibration of the world network of gravitational wave observatories.

2024 - Distinguished Mentoring Award---Christina Hacker

For outstanding mentorship and guidance of numerous postdoctoral associates and early-career staff.

2024 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Susan Schima

For excellence in the essential microfabrication work that has enabled multiple generations of chip-scale clocks and quantum sensors.

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Daniel Slichter, Varun Verma, Dietrich Leibfried, Richard Mirin

For the realization of the first single-photon detector integrated with an ion trap for the high-fidelity state readout of a trapped-ion quantum bit.

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Joshua Bienfang, Thomas Gerrits, Paulina Kuo, Alan Migdall, Sergey Polyakov, Oliver Slattery

For the development of a dictionary of standardized terms and metrics to enable a fair comparison of competing single-photon technologies.

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Denis Bergeron, Richard Essex, Ryan Fitzgerald, Jacqueline Mann, Shin Muramoto, Svetlana Nour, Gordon Shaw, R. Michael Verkouteren

For pioneering development of instrumentation and methods to precisely dispense and validate milligram quantities of radioactive liquid samples.

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Brian Simonds

For advancing intelligent manufacturing through accurate characterization of laser-metal coupling during the additive manufacturing process.

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Adam Biacchi, Thinh Bui, Cindi Dennis, Michael Donahue, Angela Hight Walker, Thomas Moffat, Eric Rus, Weston Tew, Solomon Woods

For the development of three-dimensional, high-resolution temperature measurement and imaging of materials using embedded magnetic nanoparticles.

Tammy Lucas, John Nibarger, Peter Lowell, Daniel Schmidt

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---John Biesecker, Peter Lowell, Tammy Lucas, John Nibarger, Daniel Schmidt, Joel Ullom, Michael Vissers

For developing an innovative process to fabricate superconducting interconnects for circuits with applications in astrophysics and quantum science.