{"id":109494,"date":"2020-07-04T12:43:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T19:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/results-of-an-experiment"},"modified":"2020-07-04T12:43:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T19:43:59","slug":"results-of-an-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/results-of-an-experiment","title":{"rendered":"Results of an Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mv_enhLIea8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>A USC Dornsife chemistry professor\u2019s bet on a student proposal leads to new understanding of what defines a metal \u2014 and lands the cover of Science.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ryan McMullen had never heard of the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and <i>Science<\/i>s when he started casting about for a graduate chemistry program. But on the recommendation of one of his professors, he sent an email to the College\u2019s Professor of Chemistry Stephen Bradforth proposing an experiment to tease out what makes a metal really a metal.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal would not only turn into his Ph.D. thesis but a major scientific breakthrough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A USC Dornsife chemistry professor\u2019s bet on a student proposal leads to new understanding of what defines a metal \u2014 and lands the cover of Science. Ryan McMullen had never heard of the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences when he started casting about for a graduate chemistry program. But on the recommendation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}