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2022 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors - John Kitching

Kitching with an atomic clock

NIST physicist John Kitching displays the heart of the world's smallest atomic clock. This "physics package" is about the size of a grain of rice.

Credit: ©Geoffrey Wheeler

For the Invention and Development of the Chip-Scale Atomic Clock and Chip-Scale Atomic Magnetometer.

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Created April 26, 2023
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