Awards

Mr. Joshua Hadler is recognized for his outstanding leadership and tireless dedication resulting in dramatically improved laser safety across NIST. Since 2002, Mr. Hadler has been instrumental in devising and executing an effective NIST laser safety...

Mr. John Lomax is recognized for outstanding service to both NIST and NIST customers above and beyond his normal job duties. Since December 2005, Mr. Lomax has served as the first point of contact for customers of NIST Laser Measurement Services as...

Nathan Newbury is recognized for pioneering contributions to thedevelopment of fiber laser frequency combs and their application to spectroscopy, metrology, and LIDAR.

Jonathan (Jay) Koch is recognized for his exceptional support of the research objectives at the National Institute of Standards and Technology for nearly two decades. In his role as cleanroom process engineer he has been responsible for the continued...

For devising "acoustic techniques to accurately measure properties of gases and aerosols."

Sae Woo Nam is recognized for seminal contributions to the development of superconducting single-photon detectors and photon-number-resolving detectors and their use in quantum optics experiments by the Optical Society of America.

Taylor was selected for his pioneering, world-class research on quantum fault tolerance and on the dynamic properties of quantum information devices, and for his commitment to providing educational and research experiences to graduate students...

Collé, well-known for his work on establishing one of the first quality assurance programs for radioactivity in the world, was honored for "outstanding contributions to radiation and isotope applications and instrumentation. The medal is awarded for...

He received the award for "the first experimental realization of synthetic magnetic fields and spin-orbit couplings in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates." The award was presented at the Bose-Einstein Conference in Sant Feliu, Spain, Sept. 10-16, 2011.

For outstanding leadership to the metrology community, for fostering relationships between various metrology organizations, for fostering relationships between various metrology organizations, and championing metrology learning and development...

Mike’s contributions to excellence in metrology include his role in helping to develop the world’s first continuous, near real-time international time scale, helping to coordinate official time among 16 national metrology institutes in the SIM region...

He's recognized as a world leader in early applications of lasers for precision measurements, as well as precision time and frequency measurements based on systems of atomic clocks, including use of satellites for time and frequency distribution.

The Boulder Division Safety Representatives are recognized as an organization for their exemplary leadership, teamwork, and dedication in dramatically improving safety practices at the NIST Boulder Laboratories. Over the past two years, the Boulder...

Dr. Erich Grossman is recognized for establishing the world's first traceable source of millimeter-wave and terahertz power, and for advancing the fields of millimeter-wave and terahertz radiometry, imaging, and spectroscopy. Through his development...

Daniel S. Hussey specializes in applying and extending the technique of neutron imaging at the NIST Center for Neutron Research.

He uses highly controlled ultracold atoms, trapped in crystals of laser light, to create quantum materials that shed light on problems in solid-state physics.

Hall received the Foundational Technology award for a lifetime of work on the nature of laser light and the development of frequency combs.

Marla Dowell, Group Leader of the Sources and Detector Group, was recognized for her sustained exceptional leadership as a supervisory physicist of a world-leading laser metrology program. Dr. Dowell leads the most comprehensive program in laser...

For pioneering studies in quantum cryptography.

From JQI press release: "By shining laser light and applying an external magnetic field with a gradient on a gas of neutral atoms in an ultracold state of matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, Spielman and his colleagues have synthesized an...

For significant contributions to the relativistic theory of highly-charged ions and collisional-radiative modeling, and through creation of online codes and databases for the atomic physics community.

For pioneering contributions in neutron interferometry, imaging and detection, with applications ranging from precise measurements of neutron scattering lengths to the imaging of flows in hydrogen fuel cells.

For his pioneering contributions to the field of biophysics including the detection, identification, characterization and quantification of biological and chemical polymers, and for the development of a new method for protein structure determination.

For his fundamental contributions to the experimental studies of the spin-torque oscillators, their interactions, and collective states, and for the development of new quantitative experimental methods for the investigation of magnetization dynamics...

The Team is recognized for developing fundamentally new waveform metrology, providing a world-first method for simultaneously calibrating high-speed electrical test equipment in both the time- and frequency-domains with point-by-point uncertainty...