{"id":2042,"date":"2007-01-04T04:50:26","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T04:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2007\/01\/new-nano-knight.html"},"modified":"2007-01-04T04:50:26","modified_gmt":"2007-01-04T04:50:26","slug":"new_nano_knight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2007\/01\/new_nano_knight.html","title":{"rendered":"New nano knight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing as <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2006\/12\/and_the_award_goes_to.html\">my last post of 2006<\/a> was about awards, it&#8217;s not such a bad idea to start 2007 with something along the same lines.<\/p>\n<p>Chemistry (and nanotechnology) has a new knight &#8211; not sure if that comes with shining armour or not though! In the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_honours_system\">New Year&#8217;s Honours List<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/stoddart.chem.ucla.edu\/\">Fraser Stoddart<\/a>, professor at <span class=\"caps\">UCLA<\/span>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnsi.ucla.edu\/news\/item?item_id=230184\">receives a knighthood<\/a> for his services to chemistry and molecular nanotechnology. I wonder if Sir Fraser will be rubbing shoulders with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601088&#038;sid=a9EPGjG2Uhd0&#038;refer=muse\">&#8216;Sir&#8217; Bono<\/a>, who received an honourary knighthood this year&#8230;?!<\/p>\n<p>Stuart<\/p>\n<p>Stuart Cantrill (Associate Editor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nnano\"><em>Nature Nanotechnology<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing as my last post of 2006 was about awards, it\u2019s not such a bad idea to start 2007 with something along the same lines.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2007\/01\/new_nano_knight.html#wpn-more-2042\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2007\/01\/new_nano_knight.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuart-cantrill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}