Awards

Dr. Laura Sinclair is being recognized in the Applied Science and Engineering category for pioneering femtosecond free-space optical time-transfer, enabling unprecedented precision in timekeeping. During her 12 years at NIST, she has authored nearly...

For outstanding technical leadership in conducting a critical NASA quantum sensing capability assessment to enable the success of NASA future science and exploration missions.

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 contributions to Chip-Scale Atomic Clocks and Atomic Magnetometers.

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.”

For selfless and sustained leadership in the frequency control community.

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

For exceptional scientific creativity and leadership in designing and demonstrating a state-of-the-art trapped ion optical clock with the lowest reported clock systematic uncertainty of 0.94 x 10 -18, and for implementing novel clock comparisons.

The prize selection committee cited him for “outstanding contributions to the invention and development of the optical lattice clock, which enables precision tests of the fundamental laws of nature.”

For exceptional scientific creativity and achievement in designing and implementing state-of-the-art trapped-ion optical clocks with the lowest systematic uncertainty.

Mr. Lombardi was recognized for system development and leadership in the successful delivery of the U.S. time and frequency standards signals to a variety of domestic and international Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications (PTTI)...

For the first demonstration of quantum gate teleportation with trapped ions, showcasing a crucial step toward large-scale quantum computation.

For the first demonstration of quantum gate teleportation with trapped ions, showcasing a crucial step toward large-scale quantum computation.

For significant contributions to the field of state-of-the-art atomic clocks and precision tests of fundamental physics.

For creating a suite of some of the world’s best optical tools to bring precision measurement out of well-controlled laboratory environments and into the field for such applications as long-distance time transfer, etc.

For defying prevailing theory from the past 40 years to generate the world’s most stable electromagnetic signals spanning the radiofrequency, microwave and optical ranges, and to make a 10,000-fold improvement in the ability to measure those signals.

For the development of stable, reproducible, and accurate atomic clocks based on optical lattices, and the use of those clocks to probe fundamental atomic interactions and quantum many-body systems.

He is being recognized for contributions to global time synchronization.

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

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...