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## Laser Cooling and Trapping Group

# Awards

### 2023 ASPIRE Prize U.S. Winner - Nicole Yunger Halpern

### 2020 - Arthur S. Flemming Award---William Phillips, Ian Coddington, Andrew Ludlow

### 2019/2020 George A. Snow Memorial Award - Gretchen Campbell

### 2020 Arthur S. Flemming Katharine B. Gebbie Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Federal Service – William D. Phillips

### 2019 - Presidential Rank Award---Ian Spielman

### 2019 Highly Cited Researcher: Ian Spielman

### 2017 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers - Ian Spielman, Jake Taylor, Debbie Jin, and Jun Ye

### 2015 Young Scientist Prize - Gretchen Campbell

### 2015 APS Fellow - Gretchen Campbell

### 2015 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award Recipient - Gretchen Campbell

### 2015 I.I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics - Ian Spielman

### 2014 PECASE - Gretchen Campbell

### 2012 APS Fellow - Ian Spielman

### 2011 Junior BEC Award - Ian Speilman

### 2010 PECASE - Ian Spielman

### 2010 Outstanding Young Scientist - Ian Spielman

### 2008 APS Fellow - James (Trey) Porto

### 2006 Career Achievement Medal - Bill Phillips

### 2005 Presidential Rank Award - Bill Phillips

### 2005 APS Fellow - Eite Tiesinga

### 1998 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science - Bill Phillips

### 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics - Bill Phillips

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