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1962
CU Boulder and the National Bureau of Standards, which would become the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), announce a new research partnership. At the time, it was known as the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics.
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1967
The CU Boulder campus dedicates the JILA tower, where JILA scientists still work today.
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1969
During the first moon landing, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin leave a retrofelector on the moon. Scientists on the ground shoot lasers听at this device, which bounces the light back to Earth. JILA's James Faller came up with the idea for the experiment.
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1974
Astrophysicist Katharine Gebbie steps into leadership role at JILA. She would go on to advocate for women and other underrepresented groups in physics.
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1994
Because of the expanding scope of research at the institute, JILA baby直播app opt to drop the acronym "Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics." Like the popstars Cher or Rhianna, the institute just goes by "JILA" these days.
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Eric Cornell, a NIST and JILA fellow, and Carl Wieman, a former professor of physics at CU Boulder, take home the Nobel Prize in Physics for cooling atoms to make a Bose-Einstein Condensate, a new type of quantum matter.
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2003
NIST and JILA's Deborah Jin leads a team that creates听a new kind of matter called a fermionic condensate by cooling down clouds of potassium atoms, then nudging them to form into pairs.
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2005
NIST and JILA fellow John "Jan" Hall takes home the听Nobel Prize in Physics for "contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique."
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2010-2011
World's first tabletop X-ray lasers
JILA's Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn design the first X-ray laser that is small enough to fit on a tabletop. The device shoots out X-ray light at speeds of a billionth of a billionth of a second.
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2012
David Wineland, a NIST and听JILA fellow, takes home a Nobel Prize in Physics "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems."
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2016
The U.S. National Science Foundation awards $24 million to a new center led by CU Boulder focusing on "building the microscopes of tomorrow."
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CU Boulder launches the CUbit Quantum Initiative to reinforce "baby直播app鈥檚 prominence in quantum information science and technology."
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5/1/2020
Q-SEnSE and sensibility
The National Science Foundation announces a new, $25 million center led by JILA's Jun Ye. Quantum Systems through Entangled Science and Engineering (Q-SEnSE) seeks to spur researchers around the country to "investigate promising solutions to formidable quantum challenges."
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The College of Engineering and Applied Science at CU Boulder kicks off a new effort to turn quantum advances, including quantum sensors, into real-world technologies.
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2022
Panelists from CU Boulder and several local quantum companies gather听on campus to discuss how the country's burgeoning quantum economy can become more inclusive.
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