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NIST Nobel Winners
Other NIST Connections to the Nobel Prize
Marie Curie
Learn how NIST researchers have contributed to other Nobel prizes and laureates, from Marie Curie's radium samples to the improved detection of chemical weapons.
Special Acknowledgement
Katharine Blodgett Gebbie was the director of the Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) and its predecessor, the Physics Laboratory, at the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for 21 years. She served as a senior advisor to the current director of the PML, which includes more than 1,000 scientists, technicians, guest researchers and administrative staff. Under Gebbie's leadership, scientists within the NIST Physics Lab and PML earned four Nobel Prizes in Physics from 1997 to 2012 (William Phillips, 1997; Eric Cornell, 2001; John Hall, 2005 and David Wineland, 2012).
Katharine Blodgett Gebbie
Katharine Blodgett Gebbie (1932-2016) led NIST to its four Nobel Prizes in physics as the former director of NIST’s Physical Measurement Laboratory and Physics Laboratory, which included Bill Phillips, Dave Wineland, Eric Cornell and Jan Hall. In this video, released in early 2016, Gebbie describes her life and work.