The Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science is an award of the

American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ...

(APS) that was first awarded in 1998. It is named in honor of Joseph F. Keithley, the founder of

Keithley Instruments Keithley Instruments is a measurement and instrument company headquartered in Solon, Ohio, that develops, manufactures, markets, and sells data acquisition products, as well as complete systems for high-volume production and assembly testing. ...

. The award is presented annually for outstanding contributions in measurement techniques and equipment, and is sponsored by

and the Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science (GIMS). The award is not to be confused with the similarly-named IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and Measurement of the

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

(IEEE), which is also endowed by Keithley Instruments.

Recipients

The award has been given to the following people. *2023: Joel N. Ullom *2022: Daniel Rugar and John Mamin *2021: Irfan Siddiqi *2020: No award given. *2019: Zahid Hussain *2018:

Andreas J. Heinrich Andreas J. Heinrich is a physicist working with scanning tunneling microscopy, quantum technology, nanoscience, spin excitation spectroscopy, and precise atom manipulation. He worked for IBM Research in IBM Research - Almaden, Almaden for 18 yea ...

, Joseph A. Stroscio, Wilson Ho *2017: Peter Denes *2016: Albert Migliori *2015: Daniel T. Pierce, John Unguris, Robert J. Celotta *2014: Franz Josef Giessibl *2013:

David McClelland David Clarence McClelland (May 20, 1917 – March 27, 1998) was an American psychologist, noted for his work on motivation Need Theory. He published a number of works between the 1950s and the 1990s and developed new scoring systems for th ...

Nergis Mavalvala Nergis Mavalvala (born 1968) is a Pakistani-American astrophysicist. She is the Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she is also the Dean of the university's School of S ...

, Roman Schnabel *2012:

Andreas Mandelis Andreas Mandelis ( gr, Ανδρέας Μανδέλης, born 22 June 1952) is a professor and researcher at the department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto and director of the Center for Advanced Diffusion-Wave ...

*2011:

Ian Walmsley Ian Alexander Walmsley FRS is Provost of Imperial College London where he is also Chair of Experimental Physics. He was previously pro-vice-chancellor for research and Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oxford, and a ...

*2010: Eugene Ivanov *2009: Robert J. Schoelkopf *2008: Bjorn Wannberg *2007: Kent D. Irwin *2006:

Frances Hellman Frances Hellman is a physicist who was dean of the division of mathematical and physical sciences at the University of California, Berkeley from 2015 until 2021. Her primary academic focus has been the study of the thermodynamic properties of no ...

*2005: E. Dwight Adams *2004: Virgil Bruce Elings *2003: Arthur Ashkin *2002: Robert J. Soulen, Jr. *2001: James E. Faller *2000: Calvin Forrest Quate, H. Kumar Wickramasinghe *1999: Simon Foner *1998: John Clarke

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Recipients

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