Awards

Dodson’s project featured in her talk was the investigation of catalysts in model systems.

For the design and construction of a series of highly sophisticated scanning probe instruments.

The award recognizes international leadership and impact in the organization’s main areas of biological, chemical, and physical sciences.

Dr. Marcus Cicerone was recently recognized for outstanding federal service through seminal contributions to the field of label-free chemical imaging, by introducing broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (BCARS) microscopy, and to the field...

For the development and application of optical frequency combs to precision atomic timing.

In recognition of over two decades of service in helping to guide, inform and manage the Physical Measurement Laboratory (formerly Physics Laboratory) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an organization which has yielded ground...

As a result of innovation developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and in collaboration with partners in the industry, the flexibility and reduced manufacturing cost of miniature vapor cells have enabled the...

Teufel received the award for his innovations in quantum optomechanics that are helping mechanical technologies approach the quantum limits of precision measurement and create new computing paradigms with unprecedented processing power.

Adam McCaughan and Varun Verma have both been awarded the Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship in Astrophysics in 2017.

Dr. Laura Sinclair is a physicist in the Applied Physics Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). She is recognized for pioneering new robust optical tools based on fiber frequency combs that operate outside well...

The Paul Ehrenfest Best Paper Award for Quantum Foundations for the year 2015 was awarded jointly to three publications by groups at the TU Delft (The Netherlands), the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Austria) and the National Institute of Standards...

For continuing contributions and dedication to the development of temperature measurement standards, including effective leadership of subcommittee E20.09 on Digital Contact Thermometers.

The Broadcast and New Media prize goes to Jennifer Lauren Lee for " How to Build Your NIST D.I.Y. Watt Balance," published August 17, 2015 by NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory. Her video’s comedic telling of redefining the kilogram won over the...

Fellows Jun Ye and Deborah Jin (1968–2016) have been named Highly Cited Researchers for 2016 by Thomson Reuters. Ye and Jin are two of 110 people in the physics category in this year's list. This is a particularly poignant accolade for JILA, as...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."