{"id":75965,"date":"2018-02-13T11:22:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T19:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/picture-of-single-trapped-atom-wins-uk-science-photography-prize"},"modified":"2018-02-13T11:22:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T19:22:38","slug":"picture-of-single-trapped-atom-wins-uk-science-photography-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/picture-of-single-trapped-atom-wins-uk-science-photography-prize","title":{"rendered":"Picture of Single Trapped Atom Wins UK Science Photography Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/picture-of-single-trapped-atom-wins-uk-science-photography-prize.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zoom in close on the center of the picture above, and you can spot something you perhaps never thought you\u2019d be able to see: a single atom. Here is a close-up if, you\u2019re having trouble:<\/p>\n<p>This strontium atom is emitting light after being excited by a laser, and it\u2019s the winner of the UK\u2019s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) photography award. The EPSRC announced the winners of its fifth annual contest yesterday. Winning photographer David Nadlinger, graduate student at the University of Oxford, was just excited to be able to show off his research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s exciting to find a picture that resonates with other people that shows what I spend my days and nights working on,\u201d Nadlinger told me. The best part, to him, was \u201cthe opportunity to excite people about my research, more than winning a competition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/picture-of-single-trapped-atom-wins-uk-science-photogra-1822957405\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/picture-of-single-trapped-atom-wins-uk-s...1822957405<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoom in close on the center of the picture above, and you can spot something you perhaps never thought you\u2019d be able to see: a single atom. Here is a close-up if, you\u2019re having trouble: This strontium atom is emitting light after being excited by a laser, and it\u2019s the winner of the UK\u2019s Engineering [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,48,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-particle-physics","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75965","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}