Degrees

• B.S., Physics, with honor and with distinction, Stanford University, 1985
• Ph.D., Physics, MIT, 1990

• Fellow, JILA, NIST and University of Colorado at Boulder, 1994-present
  
• Senior Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, 1992-present
  
• Professor Adjoint, Physics Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1995-present
  
• Assistant Professor Adjoint, Physics Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1992-1995
  
• Post-Doctorate, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, Boulder, 1990-1992
  
• Summer Post-Doctorate, Rowland Institute, Cambridge, 1990
  
• Research Assistant, MIT, 1985-1990 Teaching Fellow, Harvard Extension School, 1989
  
• Research Assistant, Stanford University, 1982-1985
  

• Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2000
  
• Fellow, Optical Society of America, Elected 2000 R. W. Wood Prize, Optical Society of America, 1999
  
• Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics, 1999
  
• Lorentz Medal, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1998
  
• Fellow, The American Physical Society, Elected 1997
  
• I. I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, American Physical Society, 1997
  
• King Faisal International Prize in Science, 1997
  
• National Science Foundation Alan T. Waterman Award, 1997
  
• Carl Zeiss Award, Ernst Abbe Fund, 1996
  
• Fritz London Prize in Low Temperature Physics, 1996
  
• Department of Commerce Gold Medal, 1996
  
• Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering, 1996
  
• Newcomb-Cleveland Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995-96
  
• Samuel Wesley Stratton Award, National Institute of Science and Technology, 1995
  
• Firestone Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, 1985
  
• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1985-1988