Awards

The Physics World 2021 Breakthrough of the Year goes to two independent teams for entangling two macroscopic vibrating drumheads, thereby advancing our understanding of the divide between quantum and classical systems. The winners are Mika Sillanpää...

For contributions to spintronics devices and data storage.

For pioneering development of superconducting single-photon detectors with applications to quantum communications and quantum computing.

For pioneering research in gas-filled hollow fibers for lasers and frequency metrology, technical leadership, and service to the scientific community.

For an extensive body of work in optics, including ultra-stable lasers, ultra-cold polar molecules, ultra-high resolution spectroscopy, and ultra-high accuracy optical clocks.

For contributions to optical-to-electrical conversion of ultrashort pulses leading to high-fidelity transfer of optical clock stability to the microwave domain.

The topic for the application was Photon Momentum - New Technology for High Power Laser Measurements. The main scientific goal is the linkage between Planck’s constant and radiation pressure, in addition to general understanding and improvement of...

Ye was awarded this honor due to his seminal and creative contributions to a remarkably wide range of subjects within Atomic, Molecular and Optical physics.

For developing highly effective methods for uncertainty quantification, and for the evaluation of atomic spectroscopic data and its efficient dissemination through the world’s most reliable atomic databases.

For exceptional scientific creativity and leadership in designing and demonstrating a state-of-the-art trapped ion optical clock with the lowest reported clock systematic uncertainty of 0.94 x 10 -18, and for implementing novel clock comparisons.

For creation of a revolutionary GDSII CAD design program and fundamental contributions to the understanding of surface functionalization, chemical & biological sensing, dissipation and non-linear dynamics of interacting nanoelectromechanical systems.

The prize selection committee cited him for “outstanding contributions to the invention and development of the optical lattice clock, which enables precision tests of the fundamental laws of nature.”

The topic for the application is that of thermal detectors for space-based measurements of the earth radiation budget. The main scientific goal is to achieve the lowest uncertainty measurements by means of micromachined, carbon nanotube-based...

For exceptional scientific creativity and achievement in designing and implementing state-of-the-art trapped-ion optical clocks with the lowest systematic uncertainty.

Dr Ye and his team are world leaders in time keeping and communicating with atoms through light.

Thirumalai Venky Venkatesan is inventor of the pulsed laser deposition process and is a pioneer in its application to thin films of complex oxides and related multi component materials, which has transformed research on films/ heterostructures...

For going above and beyond in helping to advance U.S. Metric Association’s (USMA) goal of "completing the US conversion to the International System of Units."

Kathryn Keenan has been named a 2021 Scialog Advanced Bioimaging Fellow. Scialog Fellows collaborate in high-risk discovery research and communicate their findings at annual closed conferences. The Advanced Bioimaging Fellows have wide-ranging...

Mr. Lombardi was recognized for system development and leadership in the successful delivery of the U.S. time and frequency standards signals to a variety of domestic and international Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications (PTTI)...

For experimental and theoretical work that led to improved understanding of superconducting x-ray sensors and new capabilities in x-ray spectroscopy.

For the first demonstration of quantum gate teleportation with trapped ions, showcasing a crucial step toward large-scale quantum computation.

For the development of versatile and scalable readout firmware that will enable new microcalorimeter instruments with larger arrays of faster sensors.

For developing an SI-traceable self-calibrating system for radioactivity measurement services which reduces the need to handle radioactive sources.

For developing novel, best-in-class electronic biosensors being used to test and quantify therapeutics developed at NIH for Alzheimer's disease.