The I. I. Rabi Award, founded in 1983, is awarded annually by IEEE. : "The Rabi Award is to recognize outstanding contributions related to the fields of atomic and molecular frequency standards, and time transfer and dissemination." The award is named after Isidor Isaac Rabi, Nobel Prize winner in 1944. He was the first recipient of the award, for his experimental and theoretical work on atomic beam resonance spectroscopy.

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* 1983 -

I. I. Rabi Isidor Isaac Rabi (; born Israel Isaac Rabi, July 29, 1898 – January 11, 1988) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, which is used in magnetic resonance ima ...

* 1984 -

David W. Allan David Wayne Allan (born September 25, 1936) is an American atomic clock physicist and author of the Allan variance, also known as the two-sample variance, a measure of frequency stability in clocks, oscillators and other applications. He worked ...

* 1985 - Norman Ramsey, Nobel Prize in 1989 * 1986 -

Jerrold R. Zacharias Jerrold Reinach Zacharias (January 23, 1905 – July 16, 1986) was an American physicist and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as an education reformer. His scientific work was in the area of nuclear physics ...

* 1987 -

Louis Essen Louis Essen FRS O.B.E. (6 September 1908 – 24 August 1997) was an English physicist whose most notable achievements were in the precise measurement of time and the determination of the speed of light. He was a critic of Albert Einstein' ...

* 1988 -

Gernot M. R. Winkler Gernot Maria Rudolph Winkler (October 17, 1922 – April 30, 2016) was responsible for the Time Service Department of the United States Naval Observatory (USNO) from 1966 to 1996. Winkler oversaw the introduction of caesium beam-based Coordinat ...

* 1989 - Leonard S. Cutler * 1990 - Claude Audoin * 1991 - Andrea De Marchi * 1992 - James A. Barnes * 1993 - Robert F. C. Vessot * 1994 - Jacques Vanier * 1995 - Fred L. Walls * 1996 - Andre Clairon and Robert E. Drullinger * 1997 - Harry E. Peters and Nikolai A. Demidov * 1998 -

David J. Wineland David Jeffrey Wineland (born February 24, 1944) is an American Nobel-laureate physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physics laboratory. His work has included advances in optics, specifically laser-cooling trap ...

, Nobel Prize in 2012 * 1999 - Bernard Guinot * 2000 - William J. Riley Jr. * 2001 - Lute Maleki * 2002 - Jon H. Shirley * 2003 - Andreas Bauch * 2005 -

Theodor W. Hänsch Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch (; born 30 October 1941) is a German physicist. He received one-third of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for "contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb t ...

, Nobel Prize in 2005 * 2004 -

John L. Hall John Lewis "Jan" Hall (born August 21, 1934) is an American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics. He shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics with Theodor W. Hänsch and Roy Glauber for his work in precision spectroscopy. Biography Born i ...

, Nobel Prize in 2005 * 2006 - James C. Bergquist * 2007 - Patrick Gill and Leo Hollberg * 2008 -

Hidetoshi Katori , is a Japanese physicist and professor at the University of Tokyo best known for having invented the magic wavelength technique for ultra precise optical lattice atomic clocks. Since 2011, Katori is also Chief Scientist at the Quantum Metrolog ...

* 2009 - John D. Prestage * 2010 - Long Sheng Ma * 2011 - Fritz Riehle * 2012 - James Camparo * 2013 - Judah Levine * 2014 - Harald R. Telle * 2015 - * 2016 - John Kitching * 2017 - Scott Diddams * 2018 -

Jun Ye Jun Ye (; born 1967) is a Chinese-American physicist at JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the University of Colorado Boulder, working primarily in the field of atomic, molecular and optical physics. Education & career ...

* 2019 - Steven Jefferts * 2020 - Robert Lutwak * 2021 - Ekkehard Peik

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IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society. Accessed May 2018. Physics awards Awards established in 1983 Atomic physics Atomic, molecular, and optical physics

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