Senior NPL fellow receives prestigious international awards

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Helen Margolis, Senior Fellow at NPL, has been named as the 2023 winner of the I. I. Rabi award and the European Frequency and Time award. This is only the second time in the history of the awards that they have gone to the same recipient in the same year.

Helen won the I.I Rabi award for her “exceptional technical contributions and leadership in the development of high accuracy atomic clocks for clock comparisons and tests of fundamental physics.” She received the European Frequency and Time award for her “outstanding contributions to scientific developments and leadership in optical frequency metrology and progress towards the redefinition of the SI second.”

The I. I. Rabi award, founded in 1983, is awarded annually by the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Society to recognise technical contributions in the fields of atomic and molecular frequency standards, time transfer, and frequency and time metrology.

The European Frequency and Time Award has been awarded by the Executive Committee of the European Frequency and Time Forum (EFTF) since 1993, with the goal of recognising outstanding contributions in all fields covered by the EFTF.

Helen will receive both awards in May at IFCS-EFTF 2023, the joint conference of the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium and the European Frequency and Time Forum, to be held in Toyama, Japan.

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