The I. I. Rabi Award, founded in 1983, is awarded annually by

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. : "The Rabi Award is to recognize outstanding contributions related to the fields of atomic and molecular frequency standards, and time transfer and dissemination." The award is named after

Isidor Isaac Rabi Israel Isidor Isaac Rabi (; ; July 29, 1898 – January 11, 1988) was an American nuclear physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, which is used in magnetic resonance imaging. H ...

, Nobel Prize winner in 1944. He was the first recipient of the award, for his experimental and theoretical work on

atomic beam resonance spectroscopy Atomic may refer to: * Of or relating to the atom, the smallest particle of a chemical element that retains its chemical properties * Atomic physics, the study of the atom * Atomic Age, also known as the "Atomic Era" * Atomic scale, distances comp ...

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* 1983 -

I. I. Rabi Israel Isidor Isaac Rabi (; ; July 29, 1898 – January 11, 1988) was an American nuclear physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, which is used in magnetic resonance imaging. H ...

* 1984 -

David W. Allan David Wayne Allan (born September 25, 1936) is an American atomic clock physicist and author of the Allan variance, also known as the two-sample variance, a measure of frequency stability in clocks, oscillators and other applications. He worke ...

* 1985 -

Norman Ramsey Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (August 27, 1915 – November 4, 2011) was an American physicist who was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the separated oscillatory field method (see Ramsey interferometry), which had importan ...

, Nobel Prize in 1989 * 1986 - Jerrold R. Zacharias * 1987 -

Louis Essen Louis Essen OBE FRS(6 September 1908 – 24 August 1997) was an English physicist whose most notable achievements were in the precise measurement of time and the determination of the speed of light. He was a critic of Albert Einstein's th ...

* 1988 - Gernot M. R. Winkler * 1989 - Leonard S. Cutler * 1990 - Claude Audoin * 1991 - Andrea De Marchi * 1992 - James A. Barnes * 1993 - Robert F. C. Vessot * 1994 - Jacques Vanier * 1995 - Fred L. Walls * 1996 - Andre Clairon and Robert E. Drullinger * 1997 - Harry E. Peters and Nikolai A. Demidov * 1998 -

David J. Wineland David Jeffery Wineland (born February 24, 1944) is an American physicist at the Physical Measurement Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). His most notable contributions include the laser cooling of trapped ...

, Nobel Prize in 2012 * 1999 -

Bernard Guinot Bernard René Guinot (1925–2017) was a French astronomer. He is known for his contributions to the establishment of ''temps atomique international'' (TAI) and the geodetic reference system used in satellite navigation. Biography From 1945 to 1 ...

* 2000 - William J. Riley Jr. * 2001 - Lute Maleki * 2002 - Jon H. Shirley * 2003 - Andreas Bauch * 2005 -

Theodor W. Hänsch Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch (; born 30 October 1941) is a German physicist. He received one-fourth of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for "contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb ...

, Nobel Prize in 2005 * 2004 - John L. Hall, Nobel Prize in 2005 * 2006 - James C. Bergquist * 2007 - Patrick Gill and Leo Hollberg * 2008 -

Hidetoshi Katori is a Japanese physicist and professor at the University of Tokyo best known for having invented the magic wavelength technique for ultra precise optical lattice atomic clocks. Since 2011, Katori is also Chief Scientist at the Quantum Metrolog ...

* 2009 -

John D. Prestage John D. Prestage is an American physicist currently at NASA and an Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society. He pioneered and designed several ion-trap atomic clocks including the physics package for the NASA Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC ...

* 2010 - Long Sheng Ma * 2011 - Fritz Riehle * 2012 - James Camparo * 2013 - Judah Levine * 2014 - Harald R. Telle * 2015 - Ulrich L. Rohde * 2016 - John Kitching * 2017 - Scott Diddams * 2018 -

Jun Ye Jun Ye (; born 1967) is a Chinese-American physicist at JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the University of Colorado Boulder, working primarily in the field of atomic, molecular, and optical physics. Education and ca ...

* 2019 - Steven Jefferts * 2020 - Robert Lutwak * 2021 - Ekkehard Peik

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