Short answers, pulled from the story.
JILA was founded in 1962 as a joint institute of the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Its original name was the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics.
The world's first Bose-Einstein condensate was created at JILA in 1995 by Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman. JILA is located on the University of Colorado Boulder campus.
Four Nobel Prize winners are associated with JILA: Eric Cornell and John L. Hall are current faculty, while Carl Wieman and David J. Wineland are previous affiliates. Cornell and Wieman shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for the first Bose-Einstein condensate.
The frequency comb is a technique for measuring the frequency of light with exceptional precision. The first frequency comb demonstration was led by John L. Hall at JILA.
Deborah Jin performed the first demonstrations of a Fermionic condensate and BEC-BCS crossover physics at JILA. She was also previously awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
JILA scientists publish more than 200 original research papers each year in national and international scientific journals and conference proceedings.