Awards

The Paul Ehrenfest Best Paper Award for Quantum Foundations for the year 2015 was awarded jointly to three publications by groups at the TU Delft (The Netherlands), the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Austria) and the National Institute of Standards...

For continuing contributions and dedication to the development of temperature measurement standards, including effective leadership of subcommittee E20.09 on Digital Contact Thermometers.

The Broadcast and New Media prize goes to Jennifer Lauren Lee for " How to Build Your NIST D.I.Y. Watt Balance," published August 17, 2015 by NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory. Her video’s comedic telling of redefining the kilogram won over the...

The group is recognized for transforming magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) into a quantitative tool for unambiguously diagnosing and monitoring disease by creating a suite of calibration standards, or "phantom," that for the first time enable MRI...

Fellows Jun Ye and Deborah Jin (1968–2016) have been named Highly Cited Researchers for 2016 by Thomson Reuters. Ye and Jin are two of 110 people in the physics category in this year's list. This is a particularly poignant accolade for JILA, as...

The Lehnert/Regal Quantum Machine Team has already racked up some major accomplishments on the path to these eagerly anticipated 21st century technologies. Their accomplishments include (1) the cooling of a drum made of about 1018 aluminum atoms to...

The Boulder Campus Green Team is being awarded an Energy and Environmental Stewardship Award in the category of recycling for its effort to make the National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder campus a sustainable world class workplace...

For technical leadership in constructing the NIST watt balance and leading a measurement campaign to determine Planck’s constant to 34 parts in 1,000,000,000. In the record time of 5 years, Dr. Haddad assembled an apparatus that can realize the unit...

For his pioneering work on Chip-Scale Atomic Devices.

This award presentation was primarily based on the team’s pioneering measurements of exotic atom x-ray emission with a TES microcalorimeter spectrometer. These demonstration measurements were performed on pionic helium and carbon and conducted at one...

For pioneering the field of chip-scale atomic devices, and integrating new ideas from atomic and optical physics and microscale engineering to enable development of precision quantum-based microscale sensors for a broad range of quantities.

For developing and perfecting optical lattice atomic clocks as the most stable and accurate clocks in the world, which will have future impacts on advanced communications and a broad range of precision measurements far beyond timekeeping.

For “exemplary leadership and contributions to the development of industry standards.”

The award was given “for two decades of leadership in advancing the quality and operational excellence of Magnetics Society and IEEE publications.”

For contributions to the understanding and applications of magnetization dynamics.

Jun Ye's research advances the frontier of light-matter interaction and focuses on precision measurement, quantum physics and ultracold matter, optical frequency metrology, and ultrafast science.

For developing a world-leading program of phase noise research and measurement services to support industry and national priorities.

For accelerating the integration of renewable energy into the power grid through establishing an international accreditation and test program.

The Judson C. French Award, first presented in 2000, is granted for significant improvement in products delivered directly to industry, including new or improved NIST calibration services, Standard Reference Materials, and Standard Reference...

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

Michael Boss, Katy Keenan, Stephen Russek and Karl Stupic are recognized for advancing the forefront of biomedical imaging by developing a broad suite of calibration “phantoms” to enable quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the...

The Thomas Reuters website states, "Highly Cited Researchers 2015 represents some of world’s most influential scientific minds. About three thousand researchers earned this distinction by writing the greatest number of reports officially designated...

Michael Mitch, Leader of the Dosimetry Group of the Radiation Physics Division, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). A member of the AAPM since 2000, Mitch represents NIST on several committees...