Rising in management through several levels, he became the founding chair of the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA), and was in 1969 appointed director of the National Bureau of Standards by President Nixon.

Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)

He is a postdoctoral fellow at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics in Boulder.

"On the ground you are limited by the seismic background noise of the earth itself," said James E. Faller, a physicist at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Taking this a step further, the experiments at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics have opened another window - one through which the Standard Model theory of matter can be explored.

From 1976-1978 he was a research associate at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics at the University of Colorado and the National Bureau of Standards, Boulder, Colorado.

JILA, formerly known as the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, is one of the leading physical science research institutes in the United States.

She was awarded a JILA (Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics) Fellowship in 2010.

Visiting Fellow, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, 1975-76.

Before he was chosen as an astronaut in 1978, he worked on astronomical research projects at the Sacramento Peak Solar Observatory in Sunspot, N.M., and at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics in Boulder, Colo.