{"id":2064,"date":"2008-11-28T11:43:45","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T17:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/11\/28\/congratulations-2\/"},"modified":"2008-11-28T11:43:45","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T17:43:45","slug":"congratulations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/28\/congratulations-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slightly belated congratulations go out to our very own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aps.org\/programs\/honors\/fellowships\/archive-all.cfm?initial=&amp;year=2008&amp;nom_unit=Particles+and+Fields+(DPF)&amp;institution=University+of+California%2C+Davis\">John Conway<\/a>, for being chosen as a Fellow of the American Physical Society.  The citation reads as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Conway, John S.<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of California, Davis<br \/>\nCitation: For outstanding contributions in the search for the Higgs boson and physics beyond the Standard Model at high energy particle accelerators.<br \/>\nNominated by: Particles and Fields (DPF)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And even more belated congratulations to our very own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aps.org\/programs\/honors\/fellowships\/archive-all.cfm?initial=&amp;year=2007&amp;nom_unit=Particles+and+Fields+(DPF)&amp;institution=Stanford+University\">JoAnne Hewett<\/a>, for being chosen last year, which I totally missed!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Hewett, Joanne<\/strong><br \/>\nStanford University<br \/>\nCitation: For her contributions to our understanding of constraints on and searches for physics beyond the Standard Model, and service to the particle physics community leading studies of future experiments.<br \/>\nNominated by: Particles and Fields (DPF)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a great honor, which indicates that the newly-minted Fellow has advanced past a stage of callow youth and cheerful enthusiasm, to a status of grey eminence and profound wisdom.  Those of us remaining in the youthful stage will endeavor to show proper respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slightly belated congratulations go out to our very own John Conway, for being chosen as a Fellow of the American Physical Society. The citation reads as follows: Conway, John S. University of California, Davis Citation: For outstanding contributions in the search for the Higgs boson and physics beyond the Standard Model at high energy particle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}