William Hollander

Bill Hollander has been developing, building, and commercializing complex physical instruments since 1979, when he joined JILA (jointly NIST and University of Colorado). In 1990 Bill established Axis Instruments Company to develop and commercialize geophysical gravity meters, and in 1993 he founded High Precision Devices (HPD), a vibrant and collaborative business, building air sampling systems for NOAA, seismic isolation platforms for LIGO (which won the 2017 Nobel Prize for physics), and ultra-low temperature cryostats for telescopes and quantum computing. In 2008 Bill began development with NIST on tissue mimic phantoms for MRI scanners, and he continues this work at CaliberMRI, spun off from HPD in 2020.