The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is soliciting proposals to support significant research in the field of fundamental measurement or the determination of fundamental constants.

Although the fundamental constants such as the speed of light or electron mass are just that—constant—our definitions of them are refined with improvements in measurement science, which is one of the reasons NIST’s Precision Measurement Grant Program has provided funding in this area since 1970. The program is designed to encourage basic, measurement-related research in universities, colleges, and other research laboratories, and to foster contacts between NIST scientists and other researchers and institutions actively engaged in such work. The program counts four Nobel Laureates among its former grantees: Steven Chu, Theodor Hänsch, Daniel Tsui, and Carl Wieman.

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