{"id":32883,"date":"2016-12-22T22:50:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T06:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/sidney-drell-stanford-theoretical-physicist-and-national-security-expert-dies-at-90"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:56:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:56:31","slug":"sidney-drell-stanford-theoretical-physicist-and-national-security-expert-dies-at-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/sidney-drell-stanford-theoretical-physicist-and-national-security-expert-dies-at-90","title":{"rendered":"Sidney Drell, Stanford theoretical physicist and national security expert, dies at 90"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sidney-drell-stanford-theoretical-physicist-and-national-security-expert-dies-at-90.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RIP dear friend.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A giant in the worlds of both academia and policy, Drell died Wednesday, Dec. 21, at his home in Palo Alto. He was 90 years old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn accomplished physicist, his contributions to improve national and international security made our world a better place,\u201d said Tom Gilligan, director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford in a statement. \u201cWe are especially grateful for Sid\u2019s relentless dedication to eliminating the threat posed by nuclear weapons and know that his important work will continue to frame the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dedicated to arms control.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paloaltoonline.com\/news\/2016\/12\/22\/sidney-drell-stanford-theoretical-physicist-and-national-security-expert-dies-at-90\">http:\/\/www.paloaltoonline.com\/news\/2016\/12\/22\/sidney-drell-s...dies-at-90<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIP dear friend. A giant in the worlds of both academia and policy, Drell died Wednesday, Dec. 21, at his home in Palo Alto. He was 90 years old. \u201cAn accomplished physicist, his contributions to improve national and international security made our world a better place,\u201d said Tom Gilligan, director of the Hoover Institution at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,219,31,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-physics","category-policy","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32883","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65526,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32883\/revisions\/65526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}