Awards

The Ho-Am Prize is presented each year to individuals who have contributed to academics, the arts, and social development, or who have furthered the welfare of humanity through distinguished accomplishments in their respective professional fields...

This year Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a research partnership between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland, researchers and their colleagues have won in the quantum category for a new method for...

Her impressive contributions to the public understanding of science are commended.

"The AD-X2 Controversy" documentary received the Best True Story Narrative and Best of Festival in the NewsFest International Film Festival in Santa Monica, California. The NewsFest is an event under the ETHOS festival umbrella. "The AD-X2...

The Rising Stars Collection features notable APL papers by emerging investigators. These papers were identified by the editors and Rising Stars Award selection committee as particularly outstanding among the many excellent candidates for the award...

The Rising Stars Collection features notable APL papers by emerging investigators. These papers were identified by the editors and Rising Stars Award selection committee as particularly outstanding among the many excellent candidates for the award...

For developing resonant soft x-ray methods to quantify polymer structure, order, and orientation, for making these tools available to the polymer physics community, and for illustrating how these parameters are critical to understanding the...

Michelle Bailey is being recognized as a member of the joint Optica/APS Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Operations report panel. She moderated the launch-webinar for the report and organized a presentation on the report at the “ Metrology for...

For long-term and extraordinary contributions in support of NIST’s atomic clock and sensing programs.

In recognition of pioneering contributions to the development of frequency combs based on mode-locked lasers and their applications in metrology.

For using the quantum hall effect in graphene for defining the ohm.

For contributions to Chip-Scale Atomic Clocks and Atomic Magnetometers.

Gorshkov was honored for his research on large, interacting quantum systems, which has practical applications for quantum computers, quantum networks and quantum sensing technologies.

The prize committee selected the winners “for the development of optical tweezer arrays to realize control of individual atoms for applications in quantum information science, metrology, and molecular physics.”

Jun Ye's research topic is Quantum System Scaling and Advantage for Fundamental and Applied Science.

This work will aim to improve the performance of TES detectors, a mature and widely used detector technology which utilizes a voltage-biased superconductor to sense the deposited power from photons incident on a thermally isolated island.

For the past few decades, charge-coupled devices (CCDs) have been a dominant technology in optical to near-infrared (NIR) astronomy, but more recently, instruments incorporating superconducting detector technologies, particularly microwave kinetic...

For selfless and sustained leadership in the frequency control community.

“Anisotropy of the Superconducting Upper Critical Field in UTe2” https://www.sigmaxiatnist.org/ecpp

For the Invention and Development of the Chip-Scale Atomic Clock and Chip-Scale Atomic Magnetometer.

For leadership in the revision of two important IEEE standards in Frequency and Time Metrology.

For pioneering contributions to phase stabilized mode-locked lasers and optical combs, fundamental tests of physics with precision optical spectroscopy, and the development and comparisons of optical atomic clocks with unprecedented precision.

For outstanding scientific leadership in the development of a state-of-the-art optical lattice clock to achieve one of the lowest atomic clock systematic uncertainties ever recorded.

For outstanding support of the Time and Frequency Division through the development of analog and digital metrology tools.

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...