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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 - Richard Steiner

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

Igor Vayshenker Receives 2007 Allen V. Astin Award

Igor Vayshenker, Calibration Leader of the Optical Fiber Power Laboratory, is recognized for his leadership in developing and providing modern standards and measurement services for optical fiber power. Optical fiber power meters are one of the most...

2006 PECASE - Joshua Bienfang

Bienfang is using fundamental theories of physics, combined with the latest telecommunications technology, to develop a form of secret-message transmission known as quantum cryptography. His expertise in laser technology and high-speed electronics...

2007 APS Fellow - Kent Irwin

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

2007 R&D 100 Award - Joshua Bienfang

A high-speed quantum cryptography system that allows "Alice" and "Bob" to discuss things in absolute secrecy earned a 2007 R&D 100 Award for a team of researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Read more ...

2007 Alexander M. Cruickshank Award - Dave Wineland

Typically, there will be one such lectureship annually for each of the principal subdisciplines of the Conferences, namely the Biological, Chemical, and Physical sciences. At its discretion, the Board may occasionally elect additional Alexander M...

2007 William A. Wildhack Award - Charles (Chuck) Ehrlich

Chuck serves as the First Vice President and U.S. Member of the International Committee of Legal Metrology, on behalf of the U.S. State Department. Chuck also serves as Chairman of the Joint Committee Guides in Metrology Working Group 2, which is...

2007 APS Fellow - Alan Migdall

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

2006 Career Achievement Medal - Bill Phillips

Phillips was cited for having "launched an entirely new subfield of atomic, molecular and optical physics," as well as being the first federal employee to win the Nobel Prize for Physics for work done as part of his official duties. Phillips shared...

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 Technology.

2006 APS Fellow - Dietrich Leibfried

For seminal contributions to the field of Quantum Information Processing using trapped ions including the demonstration of high fidelity logic gates and the implementation and application of entangled states.

2005 Presidential Rank Award - Bill Phillips

NIST Fellow William D. Phillips, 1997 Nobel Laureate in physics, is a distinguished recipient of a 2005 Presidential Rank Award for exceptional long-term accomplishments, the most prestigious award given to senior executives and senior professionals...

2005 Nobel Prize in Physics - Jan Hall

Hall is known as a preeminent laser experimentalist, concentrating on improving the precision and accuracy with which lasers can produce a specific, sharp frequency or color of light, and the stability with which they can hold that frequency. His...

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 optical materials.

2004 APS Fellow - John Gillaspy

For providing fundamental insights into the radiation and collisional properties of very highly charged ions through pioneering research with an Electron Beam Ion Trap (EBIT).
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