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2017 PECASE - John Teufel

Teufel received the award for his innovations in quantum optomechanics that are helping mechanical technologies approach the quantum limits

2016 PECASE - Andrew Ludlow

For developing and perfecting optical lattice atomic clocks as the most stable and accurate clocks in the world, which will have future

2013 PECASE - Ana Maria Rey

Ana Maria Rey, a physicist and associate researcher in PML and a Fellow at JILA, a joint research institute of NIST and the University of

Pay, Benefits and Leave

Many other federal agencies classify employees using the General Schedule (GS) system . At NIST, most employees are covered under the...

Another Leap Second is at Hand

Though your summer this year may seem all too short, it will actually be the longest one since 1994. There will be exactly one extra second, a little bonus
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