{"id":423,"date":"2020-04-03T19:55:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T19:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/physics-bulletin\/?p=423"},"modified":"2020-04-03T19:55:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T19:55:38","slug":"physics-friday-bulletin-2020-04-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/physics-bulletin\/2020\/04\/03\/physics-friday-bulletin-2020-04-03\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics Friday Bulletin 2020-04-03"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong> Congratulations<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>We offer our warm congratulations to our colleague Ashley Wilson and his fianc\u00e9e Laura Wilkinson who have announced their engagement.<br \/>\nFor those who don\u2019t know, Ashley is a member of the electronics workshop team and Laura works in DELC (Department of Languages and Cultures) here on campus.<br \/>\nAshley proposed, down on one knee, whilst they walked Laura\u2019s dog in the sunshine on the beautiful hills near Quernmore last week.<br \/>\nWe wish them the very best for the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shonah Ion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong><br \/>\nFarewell to Martin Ward<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Martin has been a long-standing member of the Department spending most of his career in the low temperature labs. Working first with Ian Miller and later, as the lead technician with Alan Stokes, making and modifying parts for the experiments and passing on his years of experience to new members of the team. We will miss his jokes &amp; stories as well his help &amp; support.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, the current situation is not conducive to marking this occasion, so once things are more normal we shall have a proper \u201cdo\u201d to thank him for his time here and to wish him well in the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shonah Ion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong> Farewell to Chris Somerton<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Chris joined the department in 2013 as QTC cleanroom technician, initially working with Atif Aziz and later with Kunal Lulla. Chris\u2019 background in and knowledge of chemistry was an excellent asset to the cleanroom, complementing very well with Kunal\u2019s background in Physics. On top of his technical duties, Chris spent a significant amount of his time on cleanroom processing becoming a very accomplished user of several pieces of specialized equipment. His systematic, focused working methodology and \u201cget on with it quietly\u201d attitude towards his work will surely be missed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kunal Lulla<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Congratulations We offer our warm congratulations to our colleague Ashley Wilson and his fianc\u00e9e Laura Wilkinson who have announced their engagement. For those who don\u2019t know, Ashley is a member of the electronics workshop team and Laura works in DELC (Department of Languages and Cultures) here on campus. Ashley proposed, down on one knee,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/physics-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/physics-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/physics-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/physics-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/physics-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/physics-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/physics-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/physics-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/physics-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/physics-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}