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  • Cindy Regal and Konrad Lehnert photo.
    Fellows Cindy Regal and Konrad Lehnert have won the 2016 Governor鈥檚 Award for High-Impact Research in Foundational Science and Technology, CO-LABS announced today. JILA Chair Dana Anderson submitted the nomination of their joint research on building, studying, and using devices that exploit the strange and powerful properties of quantum mechanics. The nomination was entitled, The JILA Quantum Machine Team: Extending Mastery of Quantum Mechanics from Microscopic Particles to Human-Made Machines.
  • David Nesbitt in office.
    The American Chemical Society (ACS) has awarded David Nesbitt the 2017 E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy. The award, sponsored by the ACS Division of Physical Chemistry, recognizes outstanding accomplishments in fundamental or applied spectroscopy in chemistry. It consists of $5,000 and a certificate.
  • Ana Maria Rey 2017.
    Ana Maria Rey has been awarded an APS Fellowship by the American Physical Society. The award cited "her pioneering research on developing fundamental understanding and control of novel quantum systems and finding applications for a wide range of scientific fields including quantum metrology and the emerging interface between Atomic, Molecular, and Optical physics, condensed matter, and quantum information science."
  • Photo of Dana Anderson
    Fellow Dana Anderson has won a CO-LABS 2014 Governor鈥檚 Award for High-Impact Research in Foundational Technology. Anderson鈥檚 work in the commercialization of cold-atom technology also received an Honorable Mention for the development of a strong public/private partnership.
  • Ana Maria Rey 2013 photo.
    President Barack Obama has named Ana Maria Rey as one of 102 recipients of the 2013 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. This award is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their research careers. Rey will receive her award at a Washington, DC ceremony in 2014.
  • Ana Maria Rey holding up models of atoms.
    Theorist Ana Maria Rey has received a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship, or 鈥淕enius Grant.鈥 She is the third JILA Fellow to win a genius grant, joining Deborah Jin (2003) and Margaret Murnane (2000). The MacArthur Fellowship includes a $625,000 unrestricted grant. Rey was cited for being an 鈥渁tomic Physicist advancing our ability to simulate, manipulate, and control novel states of matter through fundamental conceptual research on ultra-cold atoms.鈥
  • James Thompson Portrait.
    James Thompson has been named the winner of a 2013 Department of Commerce Bronze Medal for his work on pioneering superradiant lasers. The superradiant laser is a quantum device that emits coherent lasing photons.
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