{"id":26342,"date":"2020-01-23T09:05:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T22:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=26342"},"modified":"2020-01-23T09:05:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T22:05:36","slug":"australian-astronomer-wins-major-us-science-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=26342","title":{"rendered":"Australian astronomer wins major US science award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"835\" height=\"782\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Lisa_Kewley.jpg\" alt=\"Lisa Kewley\" class=\"wp-image-26343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Lisa_Kewley.jpg 835w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Lisa_Kewley-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Lisa_Kewley-768x719.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Quietly tucked away in Canberra, Australia, is one of the world\u2019s most influential astronomers right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lisa Kewley has been awarded the James Craig Watson Medal by the US National Academy of Science in recognition of her work\u2019s impact on understanding how galaxies formed and evolved over the past 12 billion years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her pioneering research in theoretical modelling sheds light on power sources for galaxies, what happens when they collide, the history of stars forming, and how oxygen is distributed throughout the Universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cosmosmagazine.com\/space\/australian-astronomer-wins-major-us-science-award\">https:\/\/cosmosmagazine.com\/space\/australian-astronomer-wins-major-us-science-award<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quietly tucked away in Canberra, Australia, is one of the world\u2019s most influential astronomers right now. Lisa Kewley has been awarded the James Craig Watson Medal by the US National Academy of Science in recognition of her work\u2019s impact on understanding how galaxies formed and evolved over the past 12 billion years. Her pioneering research &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=26342\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Australian astronomer wins major US science award&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26344,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26342\/revisions\/26344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}