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2011 Presidential Rank Award - Judah Levine

The award recognizes Levine as a world leader in early applications of lasers for precision measurements, as well as precision time and

2012 Award for Biological Sciences - Jeeseong Hwang

Jeeseong Hwang received the award "in recognition of contributions to research and service in the field of biomedical optics, specifically

2011 Arthur S. Flemming Award - Till Rosenband

He invented an entirely new technology—the "logic clock." It is the world's most accurate atomic clock with an uncertainty equivalent to one

1st North American Conference on Trapped Ions

March 20, 2017

The Ion Storage group at NIST Boulder will be holding a new Ion Trap Conference at our laboratory. The conference will be similar in scope and aims to the

NIST USNO 2016 Archive

UTC (USNO) - UTC (NIST) The United States Naval Observatory (USNO) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) make...

NIST UTC 2016 Archive

UTC - UTC (NIST) The deviation of UTC(NIST) from UTC has been less than +/-100 ns since July 6, 1994. The table below shows values of UTC -...

The Photoforce Project

High-power continuous wave lasers (also known as “high-energy” lasers) are increasingly common in manufacturing (welding, cutting, and metal additive

ACMD Seminar: Analysis on fractals: An introduction

Dr. Kasso Okoudjou, Professor and Associate Chair Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland Tuesday, April 11, 2017, 15:30 - 16...

ACMD Seminar: Methods of mathematical physics applied to practical radiometry

Dr. Eric L. Shirley, Physicist Sensor Science Division, PML, NIST Friday, March 31, 2017, 15:00 - 16:00Building 101, Lecture Room...

John Kitching receives 2017 FLC Technology Transfer Award

As a result of innovation developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and in collaboration with partners in the

The Story of an Old Timer: Radio Landing Aid

Here's a picture in May 1927 as they prepared to experiment with this new radio landing aid. That is Dellinger on the left and Dunmore to...

The Story of an Old Timer: Navigation by Radio Signal

Top right, a model of using radio signals for "fog" navigation for ships at sea developed by the Radio Section built all along the seashore...

The Story of an Old Timer: Radio Section Staff, 1924

So by November 1924, the staff of the Radio Section had been reduced to 14 permanent members and another dozen guest researchers and...

The Story of an Old Timer: Golden Age of Radio

If the Radio Section had pioneered the adventure series - the radio comedy and the "commercial" (for soap) and other products - they would...

The Story of an Old Timer: New Radio Building

In October of 1918, one month before the end of the war, the Radio Section moves into the new Radio Building (the last piece of available...

interests served by Radio Laboratory of NBS

The Story of an Old Timer: End of the Great War

After the end of the Great War, this wheel chart shows the varied and extensive interest of Radio Section. Dr. Crittenden, as Division Chief...

The Story of an Old Timer: Women in Science

Here's a picture of Dr. Louise McDowell, Professor of Physics at Wellesley College, conducting experiments (in late 1918) at NBS on...

The Story of an Old Timer: Shielding Techniques

Great progress was also made in shielding techniques - both in receiving and transmitting. To the right is a picture of a shielded cage room...

The Story of an Old Timer: Electron Tubes

Another productive effort during the war years was improvement and incorporation of electron tubes "of the DeForest type" let by Dr. Kolster...

NSCI Seminar: XSEDE's Extended Collaborative Support Services- Boosting User Productivity

Fri, Jun 9 2017, 1:00 - 2:00pm EDT

Using advanced computational resources to push the scientific frontiers is not simply a matter of providing cycles and

Ion Traps

The Ion Traps Project collaborates with PML's Ion Storage Group to lower the intrinsic heating of ions from ion trap components.

Micrographs of kinetic inductance-based parametric amplifier

Amplifiers

To process information from quantum circuits and systems, it is important to have amplifiers with wide bandwidth, high dynamic range, and extremely low noise

Quantum Locking Ranges

Visualization of Quantum Locking Ranges for the Programmable Josephson Voltage Standard (PJVS) and Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer...

JILA Team Discovers Many New Twists in Protein Folding

March 2, 2017

BOULDER, Colo.-- Biophysicists at JILA have measured protein folding in more detail than ever before, revealing behavior that is surprisingly more complex than

Single Photon Workshop 2017, Sponsors

Gold Sponsor: Silver Sponsor: Bronze Sponsor: Sumitomo Cryogenics of America, Inc

Single Photon Workshop 2017, Invited Speakers

Confirmed Invited Speakers: Seth Bank, University of Texas at Austin, USA Karl Berggren- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Maria...

The Story of an Old Timer: Epic Publications

An entire lecture could be given on the Bureau's efforts and advances during the war ... but we'll just highlight a few of the "Radio...

The Story of an Old Timer: WWI

By the start of the U.S. involvement in the Great War (April, 1917) there were seven people working full time in the Radio Section. By war's...

The Story of an Old Timer: East Building

Below is a picture of the Navy's wireless laboratory in the North end of the fourth floor of the East Building (December 1915). Note: the...

The Story of an Old Timer: Frederick Kolster

Then in 1911, Dr. Stratton hired Frederick Kolster. Dr. Kolster had been working with Lee DeForest on Electron Tube technology. So the stage...