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Physical Measurement Laboratory

Quantum Physics Division

Awards

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Jun Ye (from the chest up) standing in front of a wall of books and awards. Background is blurred out.

Jun Ye Receives the Quantum 100 Award

Ye is “recognized for his curiosity and his hands-on approach to experimentation,” according to the Quantum 100 list. “He has built a world-class research program using light, atoms, molecules, and advanced optical tools to explore nature with unprec

Using quantum sensing to detect pneumonia and asthma in children illustration

2025 AB Nexus Grant - Jun Ye

Principal Investigators: Lilliam Ambroggio, PhD (CU Anschutz) and Jun Ye, PhD (CU Boulder) Using quantum sensing and advanced laser technologies, this project aims to develop a new breath test to help doctors quickly and safely differentiate between...
Jun Ye

2025 Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis Prize - Jun Ye

The award acknowledges Ye's groundbreaking work in optical clocks and frequency metrology, which has significantly advanced precision measurement and timekeeping. His contributions have deepened our understanding of fundamental physics and paved the...
Adam Kaufman poses for a head shot with a shelf of library books in the background.

2024 PECASE - Adam Kaufman

Adam Kaufman is recognized for advances in quantum information science and precision measurement based on pioneering contributions to the development of optical-tweezer arrays of alkaline-earth atoms, including optical atomic clock technology...
Adam Kaufman

2024 Experimental Physics Investigator - Adam Kaufman

Adam Kaufman’s team will explore new chamber designs, aided by cryogenics, to greatly enhance heating from contaminants, new optical lattice designs to mitigate additional heating sources, and new cooling methods to mitigate collisional heating. Read...
Ana Maria Rey poses at her office desk with physics journals spread out in front of her. Mountains are visible through the window behind her.

2023 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow - Ana Maria Rey

The 2023 Class of Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellows will join an esteemed group of approximately 50 current fellows involved in vital basic research for the DOD. Their research spans a wide range of disciplines, including materials science, cognitive...

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

2023 Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize - Adam Kaufman

Kaufman shares the $100,000 prize with selected winners, all from different institutions (Hannes Bernien, Manuel Endres, Kang-Kuen Ni, Hannes Pichler and Jeff Thompson). The prize committee selected the winners “for the development of optical tweezer...
Jun Ye

2022 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow - Jun Ye

The 2022 Class will join a cadre of approximately 50 current Fellows who conduct basic research in areas of importance to the DoD, including materials science, cognitive neuroscience, quantum information sciences, and applied mathematics, among other...
Jun Ye

2022 Herbert Walther Prize - Jun Ye

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.
photo of the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honor

2021 Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honor - Jun Ye

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. The award committee cited Ye’s fundamental work advancing the atomic optical lattice clock...
Jun Ye headshot

2022 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics - Jun Ye

Ye has been a physicist at JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado Boulder, for more than 20 years. The prize selection committee cited him for “outstanding contributions to the invention and development of the optical lattice...
Photo of NIST physicist Jun Ye with his strontium atomic clock

2021 Julius Springer Prize - Jun Ye

Dr Jun Ye, Fellow of National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and JILA, member of National Academy of Sciences and Professor Ad joint of Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder, has made remarkable contributions to the...

2020 Micius Quantum Prize - Jun Ye

Hidetoshi Katori and Jun Ye received the prize: For their groundbreaking achievements in precision quantum measurements, in particular for the development of extremely stable and accurate optical atomic clocks.
Jun Ye

2020 Highly Cited Researcher in Physics - Jun Ye

Ye is one of approximately 6,400 researchers across 21 fields and of 179 physicists awarded in 2020. The Highly Cited Researcher award is given to researchers that have highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1 percent based on the field and year as...

2020 AAAS Fellow - Konrad W. Lehnert

For pioneering contributions to quantum science, particularly quantum control and measurement of mechanical oscillators, and sub-quantum limited measurement with applications to dark matter searches.

2019 Gears of Government Award - Thomas Perkins

Created the world’s best atomic force microscope tailored to biological measurements. Dr. Perkins’ technologies and results are improving drug design and advancing biomedical research on cancer and brain diseases.
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