Awards Received by NIST Employees

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...

A research paper whose lead author is Lucas Brady of NIST/ACMD (and a postdoctoral researcher at the NIST/UMD Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, QuICS) has been selected as winner of the 2021 USRA Q2B Applied NISQ Computing...

The Presidential Rank Award honors high-performing senior career employees for "sustained extraordinary accomplishment." https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/senior-executive-service/pres…

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

For contributions to spintronics devices and data storage.

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.

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

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™ https://publons.com/researcher/1571487...

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™ https://publons.com/researcher/1566207...

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...

Outstanding career achievements and impact on manufacturing.

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.

In recognition for his continuous and outstanding contributions to research pertaining and in support of additive manufacturing.

In recognition of your significant and continuous outstanding contributions to the field of additive manufacturing, specifically in support of standardization.

Callie Higgins was named a 2021 Emerging Leader for inventing a groundbreaking technology to detect and remedy microscopic flaws that threaten the safety and reliability of 3D–printed products, potentially revolutionizing the medical, plastics...

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 fundamental insight into the chain conformation, structure, phase separation, and interfaces of polyelectrolytes enabled by light and neutron scattering methods.

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 pioneering work on applications of machine learning for automated delineation of materials phase diagrams, and for the development of novel physics-informed machine learning for closed-loop autonomous materials exploration and optimization.

For distinguished contributions to the advancement and strength of the US federal cybersecurity community.