Past Precision Measurement Grant holder wins Nobel Prize. (News Briefs).The 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics The Nobel Prize in Physics (Swedish: Nobelpriset i fysik) is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the six Nobel Prizes. The first prize was awarded in 1901. will be shared by two JILA JILA Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (Space) fellows, Eric Cornell of NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. and Carl Wieman of the University of Colorado University of Colorado may refer to:
In 1979, Carl Wieman, then at the University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. , was awarded a NIST Precision Measurement Grant. This brings to three the number of people who as young faculty members received one of our grants and went on to be awarded the Nobel Prize. The two others are Daniel Tsui of Princeton University and Steven Chu of Stanford University. An additional Nobel Prize winner, William Phillips of NIST, is closely related to this group. His Ph.D. work was done on an experiment for which his advisor, Daniel Kleppner of MIT, was awarded a NIST Precision Measurement Grant in 1970. As part of its research program since 1970, NIST has awarded Precision Measurement Grants to U.S. universities and colleges so that faculty may conduct significant, primarily experimental research in the field of fundamental measurement or the determination off undamental constants. NIST sponsors these grants to encourage basic, measurement-related research and to foster contacts between NIST scientists and U.S. academic institutions actively engaged in such work. The grants also are intended to enable researchers to pursue new, fundamental measurement ideas for which there are few to no other sources of support. CONTACT: Peter Mohr, (301) 975-3217; mohr@nist.gov. |
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