Statement by Dr. Robert Hebner, Acting Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology, on the award of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics* to Dr. William D. Phillips of NIST:
We're tremendously excited by this news and proud as can be to have Bill Phillips on the NIST staff. Achievements in science and technology that are so important to this nation and to our economy are limited by what we can achieve in measurement science. The elegant work that Bill and his colleagues have done at the frontiers of atomic measurement opens up new possibilities both in science and measurement technology.October 15, 1997
*The Physics Prize was awarded jointly to William D. Phillips, Professor Steven Chu of Stanford University, and Professor Claude Cohen-Tannoudji of the Collège de France and the École Normale Supérieure.