Awards Received by NIST Employees

The Lehnert/Regal Quantum Machine Team has already racked up some major accomplishments on the path to these eagerly anticipated 21st century technologies. Their accomplishments include (1) the cooling of a drum made of about 1018 aluminum atoms to...

Dr. Jan Obrzut is recognized for his essential contributions to support the development of graphene standardization in IEC/TC 113. As the project leader of IEC/TC 62607-6-4, he and his team developed the first Technical Specification on graphene in...

The Boulder Campus Green Team is being awarded an Energy and Environmental Stewardship Award in the category of recycling for its effort to make the National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder campus a sustainable world class workplace...

For technical leadership in constructing the NIST watt balance and leading a measurement campaign to determine Planck’s constant to 34 parts in 1,000,000,000. In the record time of 5 years, Dr. Haddad assembled an apparatus that can realize the unit...

For his pioneering work on Chip-Scale Atomic Devices.

In 2016, Dr. Tara Lovestead, a Research Chemical Engineer in the Experimental Properties of Fluids Group, was selected to receive the 2013 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the US...

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Roger’s work with F45 has been extremely noteworthy, and the Painter Award was especially suited to the proactive mindset he has brought to F45 and the rapid evolution of its standards activity.

This award presentation was primarily based on the team’s pioneering measurements of exotic atom x-ray emission with a TES microcalorimeter spectrometer. These demonstration measurements were performed on pionic helium and carbon and conducted at one...

For pioneering the field of chip-scale atomic devices, and integrating new ideas from atomic and optical physics and microscale engineering to enable development of precision quantum-based microscale sensors for a broad range of quantities.

On February 24, 2016, Ralph M. Paroli, Chairman of the Board of ASTM International, announced that John R. Sieber has been selected as a recipient of the 2016 ASTM International Award of Merit following his nomination by Committee E01 on Analytical...

For developing and perfecting optical lattice atomic clocks as the most stable and accurate clocks in the world, which will have future impacts on advanced communications and a broad range of precision measurements far beyond timekeeping.

For “exemplary leadership and contributions to the development of industry standards.”

Recognized as a promising early career and future leader in mechanical engineering

The award was given “for two decades of leadership in advancing the quality and operational excellence of Magnetics Society and IEEE publications.”

For contributions to the understanding and applications of magnetization dynamics.

Jun Ye's research advances the frontier of light-matter interaction and focuses on precision measurement, quantum physics and ultracold matter, optical frequency metrology, and ultrafast science.

For developing a world-leading program of phase noise research and measurement services to support industry and national priorities.

For accelerating the integration of renewable energy into the power grid through establishing an international accreditation and test program.

The Judson C. French Award, first presented in 2000, is granted for significant improvement in products delivered directly to industry, including new or improved NIST calibration services, Standard Reference Materials, and Standard Reference...

The award was given "for pioneering work on chip-scale atomic sensors and devices."

Michael Boss, Katy Keenan, Stephen Russek and Karl Stupic are recognized for advancing the forefront of biomedical imaging by developing a broad suite of calibration “phantoms” to enable quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the...

The Thomas Reuters website states, "Highly Cited Researchers 2015 represents some of world’s most influential scientific minds. About three thousand researchers earned this distinction by writing the greatest number of reports officially designated...