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Peter J. Mohr (Fed)

  • Physicist - National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 1987-Present
    [Formerly National Bureau of Standards (NBS)]
  • Program Director (Theoretical Physics Program & Atomic Physics Program) - National Science Foundation (NSF), 1985-1987
  • Associate Professor - Yale University, 1983-1985
  • Junior Faculty Fellow - Yale University, 1982-1983
  • Assistant Professor - Yale University, 1980-1982
  • J. Willard Gibbs Instructor - Yale University, 1978-1980
  • Research Physicist - Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 1973-1978
  • Ph.D. in Physics - University of California, Berkeley, 1973
  • Manager - NIST Fundamental Constants Data Center, 2001-Present
  • Manager - NIST Precision Measurement Grants Program, 2000-Present
  • Visiting Professor - University of Paris VI, 1999
  • Visiting Physicist - University of Washington, Seattle, 1993
  • Visiting Physicist - University of California, Santa Barbara, 1988
  • Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award, 2013
  • NIST - Office of Measurement Services Award, 1996
  • Alexander von Humboldt Foundation - Humboldt Research Award, 1995
  • American Physical Society, Fellow, 1987
  • Editorial Board, Physical Review A, 2004-2012
  • Chair - United States Liaison Committee to the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (USLC/IUPAP) 2015-2018
  • Chair - Commission C2(SUNAMCO) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) 2008-2011
  • Chair - American Physical Society Francis M. Pipkin Award Selection Committee 2011
  • Chair - Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) Task Group on Fundamental Constants 1999-2007
  • Chair - American Physical Society Topical Group on Precision Measurement and Fundamental Constants 2000-2001
  • Chair - Advisory Board of the Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 1993-1994
  • NIST deligate to the Consultative Committee on Units (CCU), 2013-Present
  • IUPAP deligate to CODATA, 2002-Present

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Created March 16, 2019, Updated December 8, 2022
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