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2019 Gold Medal Award
Back Row: Sherman, Beloy, Swann, Hume, Newbury, Ludlow
Front Row: Leibrandt, Sinclair
AWARD CITATION
The team is recognized for creating the world's first network of optical atomic clocks using both fiber optic and free space connections, a major advance toward creating international timekeeping based on optical clocks with 100-fold greater accuracy and stability than current microwave clock standards. The team is extending optical clock capabilities out of the metrology laboratory to enable practical advances in precision timing, navigation, communication and computer networks, quantum science and fundamental physics such as searching for dark matter.