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Tue October 17, 2023

Professor Kang-Kuen Ni Wins New Horizons in Physics Prize 2023

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation awarded Professor Kang-Kuen Ni the 2023 New Horizons in Physics Prize for “the development of optical tweezer arrays to realize control of individual atoms for applications in quantum information science, metrology, and molecular physics.”
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Tue October 17, 2023

Professor Dirk Englund Awarded Humboldt Fellowship

Professor Dirk Englund received a Humbold Award in 2023 after being nominated by both the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light.
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Tue October 17, 2023

Professor Richard Fletcher wins 2023 Packard Award

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Fri March 10, 2023

Ben Augenbraun wins 2023 Jankunas Award

This award recognizes doctoral thesis research of outstanding quality and achievement in chemical physics. Three finalists will be invited to the APS March meeting to present 24-minute talks based on their thesis research.

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Mon November 21, 2022

Changhao Li Wins 2022 Peake Prize Award

Cappellaro Group member Changhao Li wins 2022 Peake Prize.
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Fri September 30, 2022

Edwin Eduardo Pedrozo Peñafiel is the winner of the 2022 Alejandro Angel Escobar National Award in Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences

Edwin Eduardo Pedrozo Peñafiel obtains this award among other reasons because the evaluating jurors considered that his research: The search for new Physics with Entanglement-Enhanced Optical Atomic Clocks is “a scientific advance in the frontier of physics that will revolutionize the precision of sensors and synchronization of computational processes.” They present this award “to a promising researcher who...
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Wed July 13, 2022

Professor Mikhail Lukin Wins International Quantum Award 2022

Announced at QCMC 2022 in Lisbon, Mikhail Lukin received the International Quantum Award (2022) for his experimental achievements.
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Wed December 15, 2021

Yi-Xiang Lu wins 2020-2021 De Favero Thesis Prize

Cappellaro Group member Yi-Xiang Lu wins 2020-2021 De Favero Thesis Prize.
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Tue December 7, 2021

Martin Zwierlein Wins 2021 BEC Award

Professor Martin Zwierlein was awarded the 2021 BEC Junior Award for his pioneering contributions to the field of ultracold quantum gases, specifically Fermi and Bose polarons, rotating condensates, spin and charge transport and the unitary Fermi gas.
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Wed December 1, 2021

Prof Mikhail Lukin Wins 2022 Norman Ramsey Prize

The 2022 Norman Ramsey Prize was awarded to Mikhail Lukin (Harvard) for contributions to quantum information science, sensing, and physics, including the development of Rydberg atom-based quantum simulators.

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