Awards

For contributions to determining the Planck constant, enabling the 2019 redefinition of the SI.

For her outstanding contributions bridging statistical physics, thermodynamics and quantum information theory.

For calculating fundamental quantum electrodynamical effects in atoms, leading the revision of the International System of Units, and providing the scientific community with adjusted values of the fundamental constants of nature.

For leveraging quantum physics to develop the world’s best standards for the ampere and kilogram, 2 of the 7 fundamental measurement units of science.

For the development of compact Kibble balance technology for mass and torque and its deployment to primary standards laboratories and U.S. industry.

For “innovative technical contributions to the emerging field of quantum thermodynamics, while vivifying the subject in the public consciousness."

For contributions to high resistance metrology and measurement standards and techniques.

Physicist Nicole Yunger Halpern from the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS), NIST, and the University of Maryland connects thermodynamics to modern quantum technologies.

Advanced the design of large interacting quantum systems through pioneering research at the intersection of quantum physics and information science with groundbreaking implications for quantum computers, sensors, and networks.

For pioneering contributions to understanding, design, and control of interacting quantum systems, with applications including quantum computers, sensors, and networks.

This year Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a research partnership between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland, researchers and their colleagues have won in the quantum category for a new method for...

Hight Walker was nominated for "advancing the physics of quantum-confined materials through innovations in Raman spectroscopy and for distinguished leadership at a National Laboratory."

Her impressive contributions to the public understanding of science are commended.

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.

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

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