{"id":8061,"date":"2012-12-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mancunion.manchestermediagroup.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/12\/03\/academic-wins-science-award\/"},"modified":"2017-09-13T01:55:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T00:55:08","slug":"academic-wins-science-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/2012\/12\/03\/academic-wins-science-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic wins science award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A professor from the University has won a prestigious physics prize.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Jon Billowes, from the School of Physics and Astronomy, won the 2012 Nuclear and Particle Physics Division Prize from the Institute of Physics.<\/p>\n<p>The international charity awarded him the accolade for important recent advances in research or development, on a specific topic relevant to physics.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, for his work in experimental nuclear physics, particularly regarding breakthroughs in laser spectroscopy .<\/p>\n<p>Professor Billowes receives a certificate, together with a cheque for \u00a3500 and will be invited to give a talk at a future conference.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Billowes was also recognised for his leading role in the development of the University\u2019s nuclear energy and medicine research centre the Dalton Nuclear Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof wins prize for breakthrough work in nuclear physics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,681],"tags":[4286,4287,4288,4289,4290],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8061"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}