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-,Ó 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. |