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Awards Received by NIST Employees

Notice: This collection is not comprehensive. Most awards included are recent. We are working to make the site more complete.

Learn more about NIST's five Nobel Prize winners

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2008 APS Fellow - Jeffrey Nico

In recognition of his contributions and leadership in precision measurements and fundamental symmetry tests using cold neutrons, and his

2008 APS Fellow - Richard Steiner

For his contributions to the development of the NIST Watt Balance, and landmark measurements of the Planck constant, the electron charge

2006 PECASE - Joshua Bienfang

Bienfang is using fundamental theories of physics, combined with the latest telecommunications technology, to develop a form of secret

2007 APS Fellow - Kent Irwin

For world-leading technical contributions and leadership in applying transition-edge superconducting sensors to materials and nuclear

2007 APS Fellow - Alan Migdall

For the development of parametric down conversion and correlated-photon generation for metrology, cryptography, communications, and

2006 APS Fellow - William Ott

For sustained leadership of the research and service programs of the Physics Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and

2005 APS Fellow - Eric Shirley

For important contributions to the computation of the optical properties of solids from the infrared to the x-ray spectral regions.

2004 APS Fellow - Herbert Bennett

For insights into solid-state materials and the development of physical models that led to improved performance of electronic, magnetic, and