{"id":11312,"date":"2017-01-19T06:43:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T06:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=11312"},"modified":"2017-01-19T07:16:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T07:16:48","slug":"uw-madison-astrophysics-innovator-lawler-wins-national-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/uw-madison-astrophysics-innovator-lawler-wins-national-award\/","title":{"rendered":"UW-Madison astrophysics innovator Lawler wins national award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11313\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11313\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11313\" src=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Lawler_James_lab17_9163-775x516.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"439\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Physics professor James Lawler in a research lab in Chamberlin Hall. Lawler has been named the recipient of the 2017 Laboratory Astrophysics Prize by the American Astronomical Society. PHOTO: JEFF MILLER<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.physics.wisc.edu\/people\/james-elawler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Lawler<\/a>, a University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison professor of physics known for devising innovative techniques to measure the chemical elements in the sun and other stars, has been named the recipient of the 2017 Laboratory Astrophysics Prize by the <a href=\"https:\/\/aas.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Astronomical Society.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The prize, announced by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lad.aas.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AAS Laboratory Astrophysics Division, <\/a>is given each year to an individual \u201cwho has made significant contributions to laboratory astrophysics over an extended period of time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lawler was cited for his work to develop methods and technologies that further the scientific understanding of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nucleosynthesis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">galactic nucleosynthesis<\/a> and chemical evolution. His work has helped astrophysicists measure elemental abundances in stars and also in the interstellar medium, helping match theoretical predictions with accurate relative elemental abundances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lawler is the Arthur and Aurelia Schawlow Professor of Physics at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UW\u2013Madison<\/a>, where he earned his doctorate. His is the recipient of numerous awards, and over his tenure at UW\u2013Madison has trained 35 graduate students who have gone on to prominent careers in academia and industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Founded in 1899, the <a href=\"https:\/\/aas.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Astronomical Society<\/a> is the major professional organization for astronomers in North America. The AAS Laboratory Astrophysics Division promotes fundamental theoretical and experimental research into the underlying processes that drive the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cosmos:_A_Spacetime_Odyssey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cosmos<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Lawler, a University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison professor of physics known for devising innovative techniques to measure the chemical elements in the sun and other stars, has been named the recipient of the 2017 Laboratory Astrophysics Prize by the American Astronomical Society. The prize, announced by the AAS Laboratory Astrophysics Division, is given each year to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Lawler_James_lab17_9163-775x516.jpg",465,310,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Lawler_James_lab17_9163-775x516-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Lawler_James_lab17_9163-775x516-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Lawler_James_lab17_9163-775x516.jpg",465,310,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Lawler_James_lab17_9163-775x516.jpg",465,310,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Lawler_James_lab17_9163-775x516.jpg",465,310,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Lawler_James_lab17_9163-775x516.jpg",465,310,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Lawler_James_lab17_9163-775x516.jpg",465,310,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Lawler_James_lab17_9163-775x516.jpg",465,310,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Lawler_James_lab17_9163-775x516.jpg",465,310,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Lawler_James_lab17_9163-775x516.jpg",465,310,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Lawler_James_lab17_9163-775x516.jpg",465,310,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Lawler_James_lab17_9163-775x516.jpg",465,310,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Lawler_James_lab17_9163-775x516.jpg",95,63,false],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Lawler_James_lab17_9163-775x516.jpg",465,310,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Lawler_James_lab17_9163-775x516.jpg",96,64,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Lawler_James_lab17_9163-775x516.jpg",150,100,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Amrita Tuladhar"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/culture\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Culture<\/a>","tag_info":"Culture","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}