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Taking Measure

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Jun Ye

Ye was born in Shanghai, China, and earned a bachelor's degree in physics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. In 1989 he moved to the United States and later received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is a Fellow of both NIST and JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado, Boulder.

What Debbie Jin Meant to Me

May 11, 2017

NIST/JILA Fellow Debbie Jin died of cancer on Sept. 15, 2016, at the age of 47. One of the most prominent researchers at NIST, she won many science awards

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