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Jeffrey Sherman (Fed)
Jeff Sherman is the group leader for the Time Realization and Distribution Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Jeff works to maintain and improve NIST systems that produce and distribute official U.S. time, time-interval, and frequency signals, which are based on an ensemble of atomic clocks and frequency references. Jeff’s research career has centered around high-precision measurements in optical-atomic systems and includes a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Washington (2007), postdoctoral work at the University of Oxford, and a National Research Council research associateship at NIST.
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Patents
Awards
- 2022, Department of Commerce Silver Medal, for work related to resilient time infrastructure
- 2019, Department of Commerce Gold Medal, for work related to optical atomic clocks
- 2018, Department of Commerce Silver Medal, for work related to the NIST Internet Time Service
- 2010-2012, National Research Council Fellowship
- 2008, Henderson Prize, outstanding thesis award, Dept. of Physics, University of Washington
