Nicholas P. Butch is the 2020 recipient of the National Institute of Science and Technology's Wesley Stratton Award "for pioneering research into the exotic physics and extremely high-field re-entrant superconductivity in uranium ditelluride." The Stratton Award is named after the first director of the National Bureau of Standards, as it was then known, recognizes an unusually significant research contribution to science or engineering that merits the acclaim of the scientific world and supports NIST’s mission objectives. It is considered to be NIST's highest award for fundamental research.