James Vincent Porto III is a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He was the recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2005.[1] He was awarded the status of Fellow[2] in the American Physical Society,[3] after being nominated by their Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics in 2008,[4] for "seminal studies of ultra-cold atoms in optical lattices with applications to quantum information, many-body physics, and condensed matter models, and for the invention of optical lattice techniques including a super-lattice for patterned loading, and a re-configurable lattice of double wells."