Quantum Devices Group
Awards and Recognition

Award

Recipient

Date

Notes

William A. Wildhack Award

Robert A. Kamper

October, 1972

National Conference of Standards Laboratories

Arnold O. Beckman Award (ISA)

Robert A. Kamper

1974

Instrument Society of America, no citation

Gold Medal

James E. Zimmerman and Robert A. Kamper

October, 1975

For innovative contributions to practical precise measurements using superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs)

Industrial Research-100 Award

Clark A. Hamilton, Robert J. Phelan*, Gordon W. Day*, John Geist*, and B. McIntosh*

1975

 
NBS Condon Award

Robert A. Kamper

November, 1977

For distinguished achievement in written exposition.

NBS Stratton Award

James E. Zimmerman

1979

 
Silver Medal

Clark A. Hamilton, Richard E. Harris, Frances L. Lloyd, and Robert L. Peterson

November, 1980

For creative advancement of the state of the art in ultra-high-speed analog-to-digital conversion.

NBS Condon Award

Donald G. McDonald

December, 1981

For distinguished achievement in written exposition.

Silver Medal

Michael W. Cromar

   
Silver Medal

Richard L. Kautz

1983

For fundamental contributions to the understanding of chaotic behavior in Josephson junction devices.

Gold Medal

Clark A. Hamilton

1983

For outstanding contributions to the development of ultra-high-speed Josephson junction microcircuit technology.

NBS Fellow

James E. Zimmerman

1984

 

EEEL Outstanding

Paper Award

Richard L. Kautz

1985

ÒChaos and Thermal Noise in the rf-Biased Josephson Junction,Ó Journal of Applied Physics, Volume 58, Number 1 (1 July 1985).

NBS Stratton Award

Richard L. Kautz and Donald B. Sullivan

December, 1985

For exceptional accomplishments that established the feasibility of a fundamental improvement in the Josephson voltage standard.

Research and Development Magazine Industrial Research-100 Award

Clark A. Hamilton, Richard L. Kautz and Frances L. Lloyd

1986

For development of Josephson series array voltage standards.

NBS Fellow

Clark A. Hamilton

1987

 
NIST Gold Medal

Clark A. Hamilton, Rochard E. Harris, Richard L. Kautz, Frances L. Lloyd, James A. Beall

October, 1989

For developing the first practical Josephson-junction series array voltage standards, at both 1 V and 10 V levels, including the U.S. primary standard.

IEEE Fellowship

Robert A. Kamper

1989

For leadership and technical contributions to the application of superconductivity in instrumentation, measurement, and standards.

EEEL Outstanding Paper Award

Samuel P. Benz and Charles J. Burroughs

1991

ÒCoherent Emission from Two-Dimensional Josephson Junction Arrays,Ó Appl. Phys. Lett. 58(19): 2162-2164, May 1991

NIST Gold Medal

High Temperature Superconducting Electronics Team: James A. Beall, Todd E. Harvey, Ronald H. Ono, David A. Rudman, etc

October, 1993

For the worldÕs best Josephson junction and associated practical technology to put the U.S. in the lead for superconducting electronics

Silver Medal

Robert A. Kamper

1993

For leadership of NISTÕs Boulder Laboratories and for excellent negotiating skills in facilities development.

Harry Diamond Memorial Award (IEEE)

Robert A. Kamper

1993

For pioneering the application of superconducting quantum mechanical principles to metrology, directing development of advanced Cryoelectronics devices, and guiding a metrology program supporting the lightwave industry.

EEEL Outstanding Paper Award

John M. Martinis, Michael Nahum, and Hans Dalsgaard Jensen

1994

ÒMetrological Accuracy of the Electron Pump,Ó Physical Review Letters, Volume 72, Number 6, pp. 904-907 (7 February 1994)]

EEEL Measurement Services Award

Clark A. Hamilton

February, 1995

 
EEEL Outstanding Paper Award

Mark W. Keller, John M. Martinis, Neil M. Zimmerman, and Andrew H. Steinbach

1996

ÒAccuracy of Electron Counting Using a 7-Junction Electron Pump,Ó Applied Physics Letters, Volume 69, Number 12, pp 1804-1806, 16 September 1996].

NIST Stratton Award

John M. Martinis

December, 1996

For applying new insights into quantum phenomena to establish the fundamental accuracy of Coulomb-blockade circuits for single-electron counting

Silver Medal

John Martinis

December, 1996

For establishing the fundamental accuracy of Coulomb-blockade circuits for single-electron counting, providing the basis for new intrinsic standards

EEEL Measurement Services Award

Clark A. Hamilton

February, 1995

 
EEEL Outstanding Authorship Award

Mark W. Keller, John M. Martinis, Neil Zimmerman, and Andrew H. Steinbach

February, 1997

ÒAccuracy of electron counting using a 7-junction electron pump,Ó Appl. Phys. Lett. 69(12), 1804-1806, 16 September 1996.

Allen V. Astin Award (National Conference of Standards Laboratories)

Samuel P. Benz, Clark A. Hamilton, Charles J. Burroughs, Todd Harvey, and Lawrence Christian

1997

Josephson Standards for AC Voltage Metrology

Fellow of American Physical Society, Condensed Matter Physics

John M. Martinis

November, 1997

For his experimental investigations into the fundamental quantum behavior of low-temperature electronic devices

NIST Condon Award

Richard L. Kautz

December, 1997

For his extensive review of the physics of the dc series array voltage standard in the paper ÒNoise, chaos, and the Josephson voltage standard,Ó which appeared in Reports on Progress in Physics, vol. 59, pp. 935-992, Aug 1996.

Fellow of the American Physical Society, Instrumentation and Measurement Science Group

Richard L. Kautz

1998

For experimental and theoretical investigations of Josephson junctions, particularly the nonlinear dynamics of phase locking and chaos, essential to the development of practical series-array voltage standards.

Fellow of the American Physical Society, Instrumentation and Measurement Science Group Donald G. McDonald

   
EEEL Outstanding Authorship Award

David A. Wollman, Kent D. Irwin, Gene C. Hilton, Laura L. Dulcie, Dale E. Newbury, and John M. Martinis

1998

ÒHigh-Resolution, Energy-Dispersive Microcalorimeter Spectrometer for X-Ray Microanalysis,Ó Journal of Microscopy, Volume 188, Pat 3, pp. 196-223, December 1997

NIST Applied Research Award

Gene C. Hilton, Kent D. Irwin, John M. Martinis, and David A. Wollman

December, 1998

For inventing an x-ray detector, demonstrating its potential to revolutionize x-ray microanalysis and developing it to the point of commercialization

Gold Medal

Gene C. Hilton, Kent D. Irwin, John M. Martinis, and David A. Wollman

December, 1998

For inventing a new x-ray detector, showing its potential to revolutionize x-ray microanalysis, and bringing it to the point of commercialization.

EEEL Outstanding Authorship Award

Mark W. Keller, Ali L. Eichenberger, John M. Martinis, and Neil M. Zimmerman

1999

ÒA Capacitance Standard Based on Counting Electrons,Ó Science, Vol. 285, pp 1706-1709, 10 September 1999

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

Mark W. Keller

October, 2000

In recognition for his research on using the fundamental quantum properties of nature to create new standards and tools for measurement science.

NIST Condon Award

Mark W. Keller, John M. Martinis, Ali Eichenberger, Neil Zimmerman

November, 2000

For distinguished achievement in written exposition.

William A. Wildhack Award

Clark Hamilton

October, 2001

National Conference of Standards Laboratories

NIST Fellow John Martinis

December, 2001

In recognition for his excellence as a scientist and for the contributions he has made in both science and technology.

Symbols, Units, Nomenclature, Atomic Masses and Fundamental Physical Constants  (SUNAMCO) Award

Clark Hamilton

2001

International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)

2001 Best Paper Award ASME International, Heat Transfer Division

David Rudman and Leila Vale

2001

ÒFar-infrared transmittance and reflectance of YBa2Cu3O7-J. Heat Transfer, vol. 121, p. 844 (1999).

Kurt F. J. Heinrich Award                       

David Wollman

August, 2002

Given by the Microbeam Analysis Society in recognition of his work supporting the microcalorimeter project in the Electromagnetic Technology Division to develop a high-resolution microcalorimeter energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometer and demonstrate its usefulness for low-voltage X-ray microanalysis.

Gold Medal

Samuel Benz and Charles Burroughs

September, 2002

In recognition for developing an original quantum-based dc voltage reference system that is now being applied to improve the accuracy and reliability of NISTÕs fundamental electrical measurement systems, upon which all U.S. electrical measurements are based. 

Brilliant 10, Popular Science Magazine

Sae Woo Nam

   
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

Sae Woo Nam

May, 2004

 
Bronze Medal

James A. Beall, Margaret Crews, and Jonathan Koch

November, 2004

For superior performance in operating and maintaining the Boulder Integrated Circuit Fabrication Facility.

EEEL Outstanding Authorship Award Joel Ullom February, 2005 "Cryogenics on a Chip" in Physics Today, May, 2005.
EEEL Outstanding Authorship Award Kent Irwin and Gene Hilton February, 2006 "Transition-Edge Sensors," Chapter in Cryogenic Particle Detection, C. Enss (Ed.), Topics App.l Phys. 99 63-149 (2005).
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers Joel Ullom    
John F. Mayo-Wells Safety Award   2005  
Best Paper, 2nd Boulder Laboratories Postdoctoral Poster Symposium Katarina Cicak June, 2005 Fabrication and Testing of Re-AlOx-Re and Re-AlOx-Al Josephson Junctions for Phase Qubits
Arthur S. Fleming Award Kent Irwin 2006 For the invention and application of Transition-Edge Sesnors to some of the world's most difficult detector problems, enabling highly sensitive measurements to be made in a breadth of areas that would otherwise be impossible.
Keithley Award of the American Physical Society Kent Irwin March, 2007 For the development of SQUID multiplexers used in large-format arrays of superconducting transiton-edge sensors that have impacted such fields as aprticle physics, astronomy, materials analysis, cosmology, and nuclear physics.

NIST Colleagues Choice Award

Raymond Simmonds December, 2006 For contagious enthusiasm, creativity and technical leadership in contributing to NIST's position in the forefront of quantum computing research.
Best Paper, 4th Boulder Laboratories Postdoctoral Poster Symposium Katarina Cicak June, 2007 Improving Superconducting Phase Qubits with Low-Loss Vacuum-Gap Capacitors
Gold Medal Sam Benz, Paul Dresselhaus, Charles Burroughs, Thomas Lipe, Joseph Kinard, Y-hua Tang November, 2007 For development and dissemination of the worlds' first quantum-based electrical standard for ac voltage.
Silver Medal David Pappas and Anothony Kos November, 2007 For developing and delivering a unique high-speed magnetic scanner system to the FBI for forensic tape analysis.
Samuel Wesley Stratton Award Kent Irwin November, 2007 For his intellectual leadership in the development of world-leading superconducting quantum sensors, which are driving innovation in diverse areas.