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Jeffrey Sherman (Fed)
Jeff Sherman is a Supervisory Physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Jeff works to maintain and improve NIST systems that produce and distribute official U.S. time, time-interval, and frequency signals, which are based on an ensemble of atomic clocks and frequency references. Jeff’s research career has centered around high-precision measurements in optical-atomic systems and includes a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Washington (2007), postdoctoral work at the University of Oxford, and a National Research Council research associateship at NIST.
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Awards
- 2022, Department of Commerce Silver Medal, for work related to resilient time infrastructure
- 2019, Department of Commerce Gold Medal, for work related to optical atomic clocks
- 2018, Department of Commerce Silver Medal, for work related to the NIST Internet Time Service
- 2010-2012, National Research Council Fellowship
- 2008, Henderson Prize, outstanding thesis award, Dept. of Physics, University of Washington