{"603960":{"#nid":"603960","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"An Indian\u2019s journey from reading \u0027A Brief History of Time\u0027 to having lunch with colleague Stephen Hawking","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELegendary physicist\/cosmologist Stephen Hawking \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/hg\/item\/603794\u0022\u003Edied\u003C\/a\u003E on March 14, and the news is already prompting stories about the inspiration he provided to scientists around the world. For\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.karanjani.com\/about\/\u0022\u003E Karan Jani\u003C\/a\u003E, a postdoctoral research fellow with Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cra.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Relativistic Astrophysics\u003C\/a\u003E, it was Hawking\u0026#39;s classic book \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Brief-History-Time-Stephen-Hawking\/dp\/0553380168\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EA Brief History of Time\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E that launched him on his own path to success in physics. Jani was part of the Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ligo.org\/\u0022\u003ELIGO Scientific Collaboration\u003C\/a\u003E team that detected the first gravitational waves, an achievement that won the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cos.gatech.edu\/hg\/item\/596818\u0022\u003E2017 Nobel Prize in Physics\u003C\/a\u003E for the LIGO founders. This \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/when-i-had-lunch-prof-stephen-hawking-karan-jani\/\u0022\u003Elink\u003C\/a\u003E within the Quartz India story leads you to Jani\u0026#39;s heartfelt recollection of the lunch he once shared with Hawking.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2018-03-19 15:06:13","changed_gmt":"2018-03-19 19:37:47","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"seung-eun chang","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/qz.com\/1229726\/how-stephen-hawking-influenced-karan-jani-an-indian-astrophysicist\/","dateline":{"date":"2018-03-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-03-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"603961":{"id":"603961","type":"image","title":"Karan Jani ","body":null,"created":"1521472049","gmt_created":"2018-03-19 15:07:29","changed":"1521472049","gmt_changed":"2018-03-19 15:07:29","alt":"","file":{"fid":"230196","name":"Karan_Jani square.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Karan_Jani%20square.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Karan_Jani%20square.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":32160,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Karan_Jani%20square.jpg?itok=dfXb0pUC"}}},"media_ids":["603961"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"91741","name":"Center for Relativistic Astrophysics"},{"id":"173122","name":"KAran Jani"},{"id":"169044","name":"Stephen Hawking"},{"id":"99091","name":"Gravitational waves"},{"id":"175787","name":"LIGO Scientific Collaboration"},{"id":"175788","name":"Nobel Prize in Physics"},{"id":"177475","name":"A Brief History of Time"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}