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Physical Measurement Laboratory

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2022 - Bronze Medal Award---Ronald B. Goldfarb, Dianne L. Poster, John Henry J. Scott, Kathryn Miller, Karen J. Wick

For excellence in editing and publication management of articles for the Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

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 - 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 - 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 - Samuel Wesley Stratton Award---Kartik Srinivasan

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

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 - Gold Medal Award---John Teufel, José Aumentado, Katarina Cicak, Raymond Simmonds, Scott Glancy, Emanuel Knill

For pioneering experimental techniques to generate and precisely measure the quantum entanglement of two macroscopic mechanical resonators.

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 - Gold Medal Award---Barbara Goldstein

For advancing world-leading metrology solutions to enhance U.S. security and economic growth through leadership of the NIST-on-a-Chip program.

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.

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 - 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 - Gold Medal Award---Jun Ye

For the most precise measurement of the gravitational redshift using optical atomic clocks, further confirming Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity.

2022 - William P. Slichter Award---Ndubuisi George Orji

For leadership in metrology for advanced semiconductor manufacturing and strengthening cooperation with the microelectronics industry.

2022 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Sherry D. Sheckels

For the performance of consistently reliable and accurate liquid volume calibrations to support petroleum custody transfers.

Albert Rigosi Receives 2022 Katharine B. Gebbie Young Investigator Award

For using the quantum hall effect in graphene for defining the ohm.

John Kitching Named 2022 IEEE Fellow

For contributions to Chip-Scale Atomic Clocks and Atomic Magnetometers.

Richard Mirin Named 2023 IEEE Fellow

For contributions to quantum photonic devices.

Alexey Gorshkov Named 2023 Optica Fellow

Gorshkov was honored for his research on large, interacting quantum systems, which has practical applications for quantum computers, quantum networks and quantum sensing technologies.

Thomas A. Germer Named 2023 Optica Fellow

For pioneering contributions to interpretation of polarized reflection and scattering from rough and contaminated surfaces.

Joel N. Ullom Receives 2023 Joseph F. Keithley Award

For the development of ultrasensitive multi-pixel transition-edge-sensor calorimeters and spectrometers for applications in astrophysics, nuclear security, materials analysis, and metrology.

Andrea Centrone Receives 2022 RMS Scientific Achievement Award

Andrea is an exceptional scientist whose work has contributed to overcoming one of the main shortcomings of atomic force microscopy (AFM) – its inability to conclusively identify chemical species in the nanoscale resolution maps the AFM provides.

Adam Kaufman poses for a head shot with a shelf of library books in the background.

Adam Kaufman Receives 2023 Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize

The prize committee selected the winners “for the development of optical tweezer arrays to realize control of individual atoms for applications in quantum information science, metrology, and molecular physics.”

2022 R&D 100 Award - SOFIA: Spectrometer Optimized for Facility Integrated Applications

Category: IT/Electrical Developers: Los Alamos National Laboratory Co-Developers: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), University of Colorado – Boulder United States Product Description: SOFIA (Spectrometer Optimized for Facility...

Cameron Miller Named 2022 IES Fellow

For outstanding leadership and technical contributions to standardization of measurements of light sources and lighting products.

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