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Physical Measurement Laboratory

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2023 APL Rising Stars Collection - Benedikt Hampel, Daniel Slichter, Dietrich Leibfried, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Varun Verma

The Rising Stars Collection features notable APL papers by emerging investigators. These papers were identified by the editors and Rising Stars Award selection committee as particularly outstanding among the many excellent candidates for the award...

2023 Presidential Rank Award - JILA and NIST Fellow Ana Maria Rey

Dr. Ana María Rey is a world-leading quantum theorist who collaborates daily with foremost experimental scientists to advance NIST measurements and technologies, such as the world’s best atomic clocks, world-leading programs in ultracold molecules...

Vladimir Aksyuk Named 2024 Optica Fellow

For pioneering contributions to optical switching and sensing systems utilizing micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) actuation principles and nanophotonics.

2023 R&D 100 Award - Hyperspectral X-ray Imaging Detector (HXI)

Category: Mechanical/Materials Developers: Los Alamos National Laboratory Co-Developers: National Institute of Standards, Boulder, CO; University of Colorado, Boulder, CO United States Product Description: The hyperspectral x-ray imaging (HXI)...

Jordan Wheeler Receives 2022 Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship in Astrophysics

This opportunity will facilitate my own professional growth and will allow me to become a mentor to others, where I hope to pass on knowledge and skills similar to those that I gleaned from my own mentors in the past.

David Sefcik (center) accepting his award from NCWM Chair-elect Gene Robertson (at the podium), NCWM Chair Mahesh Albuquerque (left) and NIST Director Laurie Locascio (right).

2023 NCWM Outstanding Contributions Award - David Sefcik

David Sefcik of the NIST OWM received the 2023 NCWM Outstanding Contributions Award for his service as a co-organizer of the 2022 NCWM-NIST National Survey on 20 lb LPG (Propane) Cylinders. The study was conceived by and conducted in partnership with...

Ana Maria Rey Named 2023 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow

Ana Maria Rey's research topic is Harnessing Long-lived Multi-level Atoms in Optical Cavities for Quantum Simulation and Sensing.

Nicole Yunger Halpern Wins 2023 ASPIRE Prize U.S.

Nicole Yunger Halpern is an emerging young leader in the reconciliation and mutual strengthening of the concepts of thermodynamics and quantum physics, which can now be explored in unprecedented experimental detail.

Word collage (reference materials, QC tools, repeatability, compatibility, reproducibility, etc. over top of small jar

2023 - Best Review Award Published in 2022---Clay Davis, Goncalo Gouveia, Christina Jones, Katrice Lippa, and Tracey Schock

" Reference Materials for MS-based Untargeted Metabolomics and Lipidomics: A Review by the Metabolomics Quality Assurance and Quality Control Consortium (mQACC) ", Metabolomics volume 18, Article number: 24 (2022), was recently awarded the 2023 Best...

Julia Scherschligt Named 2023 AVS Fellow

In 2023 Julia Scherschligt received the honor of an AVS Fellow, in recognition for outstanding contributions to vacuum science and metrology as a scientific manager, leader, and researcher.

Vladislav Gerginov Receives 2022 Distinguished Associate Award

For long-term and extraordinary contributions in support of NIST’s atomic clock and sensing programs.

Tara Fortier Receives 2023 SPIE Harold E. Edgerton Award in High-Speed Optics

In recognition of pioneering contributions to the development of frequency combs based on mode-locked lasers and their applications in metrology.

2022 - Distinguished Career Award---Michael Lombardi

For a career of sustained excellence in the leadership of NIST’s mission-essential time and frequency distribution services.

2022 - Samuel Wesley Stratton Award---Kartik Srinivasan

For contributions in integrated photonics to advance optical frequency standards, precision sensing, and quantum information science.

2022 - Silver Medal Award---Michael Bartock, Jonathan Hardis, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, James McCarthy, Suzanne Lightman, Karen K. Reczek, Jeffrey Sherman, Roger Brown, Michael Lombardi, Judah Levine

For strengthening the resilience of position, navigation, and timing infrastructure and services on which global commerce and national security rely.

2022 - Arthur S. Flemming Award---John Teufel

Dr. Teufel is a world leader in the field of quantum optomechanics. His innovations over the last decade have tested fundamental physics and will help enable the future of quantum information.

2022 - Jacob Rabinow Applied Research Award---Dietrich Leibfried, Daniel Slichter, Andrew Wilson

For providing critical expertise in trapped-ion quantum information processing to industry stakeholders in support of the emerging quantum economy.

2022 - Arthur S. Flemming Award---Bala Muralikrishnan

Dr. Muralikrishnan’s seminal research in precision dimensional metrology is accelerating the adoption of next-generation coordinate scanning.

2022 - Dean of Staff Award---Judah Levine

The Dean of Staff award honors the current employee with the longest tenure at NIST. The honoree receives a framed copy of an antique print of pioneering scientist Michael Faraday. A rare carbon print of this photo, now in NIST’s historical artifact collection, hung in the office of the first three NIST directors for four decades.

2022 - Bronze Medal Award---Stephen Russek, Karl Stupic, Kathryn Keenan, Neal Zelarney

For establishing a lending library service with the National Institutes of Health for the dissemination of magnetic resonance imaging standards.

2022 - Edward Uhler Condon Award---Stephan Schlamminger

For explaining the physics of a crane operator’s trick of managing a swinging load and applying it to measure the universal gravitational constant G.

2022 - Allen V. Astin Measurement Science Award---Dazhen Gu, Aaron Hagerstrom, Benjamin Jamroz, Jeffrey Jargon, Christian Long, Ann F. Monke, Eric Stanfield, Angela Stelson, John Stoup, Dylan Williams

For developing rigorous traceability with correlated uncertainties for microwave power and scattering parameters at 5G/6G communications frequencies.