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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.
Deborah Jin is a physicist who uses recent advances in atomic cooling to study the behavior of atoms near absolute zero. As a postdoctoral fellow, Jin participated in early demonstrations of Bose-Einstein condensation—a process in which a small...
He's harnessed the bizarre quantum world and made it do his bidding.
A century after the discovery of quantum mechanics, physicists are still unsure what to make of it, but they are making things with it--machines that capitalize on particles'...
NIST'S First Century For one hundred years, scientists and engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, formerly the National Bureau of Standards, have made broad-based and comprehensive contributions to chemical science and...
Award Citation For advancing next generation lithography by the discovery of deep, ultraviolet birefringence in calcium fluoride. Individual Award Zachary H. Levine Physicist Physical Measurement Laboratory
Cornell and University of Colorado physicist Carl Wieman did the groundbreaking experiment at JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado Boulder. In June 1995, after five years of focused effort, Cornell and Wieman’s group created...
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...
For definitive calculations of atomic collision processes, which have improved our understanding of photoassociation spectroscopy, dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates, and effects of radiation retardation on atomic collisions.
Award Citation For the development of high-resolution X-ray microtomography of buried structures. Individual Award Zachary H. Levine Physicist Physical Measurement Laboratory
A physicist from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Belecki was honored for his 29 years of service in support of electrical measurements, standards, and traceability in support US industry, academia, and government metrology...
John D. Gillaspy, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, received his Ph.D. in 1988 from Harvard University, where he also received his A.M. degree. His undergraduate work was at Stanford University. At NIST, he is leader...
For the first laser cooling of any atomic species and the demonstration of innovative methods for laser cooling of trapped ions, providing the foundation for the next generation of atomic frequency standards.
Phillips was chosen "for pioneering experiments in laser cooling and trapping, including the first demonstrations of Zeeman cooling, the magnetic trapping of neutral atoms and the extension of laser cooling below the Doppler limit."
For major contributions to the understanding of weak intermolecular forces, vibrational couplings, intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution, and the development of the technique of electric-resonance optothermal spectroscopy.
For experimental and theoretical investigations of Josephson junctions, particularly the nonlinear dynamics of phase locking and chaos, essential to the development of practical series-array voltage standards.
Cornell was cited "For achieving Bose-Einstein condensation of an atomic gas, for creating techniques for studying the Bose condensate, and for measuring the physical properties of the weakly interacting atomic Bose gas."
Their work combined to create some of the most important technologies of modern atomic physics, which thousands of researchers worldwide employ today for a wide variety of applications. Phillips began his experiments with laser trapping and cooling...
For pioneering research that led to the first observation of Bose-Einstein condensation in an atomic gas, an observation that has opened a new area of investigation in physics.
For outstanding contributions to the development of innovative instruments and techniques for elucidating atomic and molecular photoionization processes and for defining national radiometric standards.
AWARD CITATION For providing documentation and developing a quality system compliant with ISO Guide 25 for calibrations offered by the Radiometric Physics Division. GROUP AWARD Sally S. Bruce Physical Scientist Physical Measurement Laboratory Thomas...
MML Division Chief Dr. Anne Plant has been elected to the rank of fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) by the AAAS Council. Plant was recognized for "distinguished contributions to the field of quantitative biology...