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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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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 - 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 Highly Cited Researcher - Hui Wu

Recognizing the true pioneers in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science™ Wu, Hui - Web of Science Core Collection

2022 Highly Cited Researcher - Wei Zhou

Recognizing the true pioneers in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science™ Zhou, Wei - Web of Science Core...

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.

Ryan Falkenstein-Smith Receives Proulx Early Career Award

​This award recognizes meritorious achievement by members of the IAFSS who are early in their career and have contributed a body of work that is of significance to fire safety science. The award includes a grant of $4,000 (US), a plaque, and free...
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