Honors

Prizes & Awards

Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science

To recognize physicists who have been instrumental in the development of measurement techniques or equipment that have impact on the physics community by providing better measurements.

Nominations for the award will open starting January 1, 2026

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GIMS Eigler Award

In honor of Donald M. Eigler, GIMS, in coordination with the organizers of the International Conference on Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM), is proud to offer the Eigler Award biennially.

The Eigler Award is an early-career research award, recognizing outstanding doctoral research and innovative doctoral contributions to the field of scanning probe microscopy. Five finalists will be invited to present a talk during the finals at the STM conference, where the winner will be selected. The winner will be announced during the STM conference and will then be awarded both a travel reimbursement, as well as an invited talk at the following APS Global Physics Summit.

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