{"629674":{"#nid":"629674","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Meet ScienceMatters Winner Harshavardhan Murali","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHarshavardhan Murali is a third-year physics Ph.D. student from Chennai, India. He graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Madras with a B.S. in engineering physics. He says he chose to attend Georgia Tech because of the strong research and excellent facilities available here.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHarshavardhan conducts research under \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/user\/phillip-first\u0022\u003EPhillip First\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the School of Physics. He works on\u0026nbsp;experimental solid-state physics, using scanning tunnelling microscopy as the primary tool.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHarshavardhan likes to listen to ScienceMatters while he prepares his meals. \u0026quot;The podcast is a very good initiative that gives opportunities for non-experts, like me, to listen to researchers explain their work in a fun and engaging manner,\u0026quot; he says.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe quiz question for episode 7\u0026nbsp;was:\u0026nbsp;What particle is made up of an electron and an electron hole?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe correct answer is exciton.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis announcement is late because Harshavadhan was not the first name in the random sequence of correct submissions after the deadline for quiz 7 closed. The first person in\u0026nbsp;the random sequence could not claim the prize in time. So we chose the next name in the sequence, which was Harshavadhan\u0026#39;s.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Third-year physics Ph.D. student wins quiz 7 of ScienceMatters Season 3"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHarshavardhan Murali, a third-year physics Ph.D., wins quiz 7\u0026nbsp;of ScienceMatters Season 3.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Third-year physics Ph.D. student wins quiz 7 of ScienceMatters Season 3."}],"uid":"35185","created_gmt":"2019-12-04 14:26:21","changed_gmt":"2019-12-10 17:47:46","author":"kpietkiewicz3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-12-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-12-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"629673":{"id":"629673","type":"image","title":"2019 SM Quiz Winner Harshavardhan Murali","body":null,"created":"1575469557","gmt_created":"2019-12-04 14:25:57","changed":"1575469557","gmt_changed":"2019-12-04 14:25:57","alt":"","file":{"fid":"239785","name":"2019 Quiz Winner Harshavardhan Murali.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2019%20Quiz%20Winner%20Harshavardhan%20Murali.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2019%20Quiz%20Winner%20Harshavardhan%20Murali.png","mime":"image\/png","size":913981,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2019%20Quiz%20Winner%20Harshavardhan%20Murali.png?itok=n21UNRLx"}}},"media_ids":["629673"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/science-matters\/sciencematters-season-3-episode-1-all-about-control","title":"ScienceMatters Season 3 Episode 1: All About Control"},{"url":"https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/science-matters\/sciencematters-season-3-episode-2-search-earth-20","title":"ScienceMatters Season 3 Episode 2: The Search for Earth 2.0"},{"url":"https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/science-matters\/sciencematters-season-3-episode-3-search-life-earths-extremes","title":"ScienceMatters Season 3 Episode 3: The Search for Life at the Extremes"},{"url":"https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/science-matters\/sciencematters-s03-e04-using-math-tour-solar-system","title":"ScienceMatters Season 3 Episode 4: Using Math to Tour the Solar System"},{"url":"https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/science-matters\/sciencematters-season-3-episode-5-clearing-air-about-aerosol-science","title":"ScienceMatters Season 3 Episode 5: Clearing the Air about Aerosol Science"},{"url":"https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/science-matters\/sciencematters-season-3-episode-6-unlocking-mind-body-connection","title":"ScienceMatters Season 3 Episode 6: Unlocking the Mind-Body Connection"},{"url":"https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/science-matters\/sciencematters-season-3-episode-7-finding-magic-materials-science","title":"ScienceMatters Season 3 Episode 7: Finding the Magic in Materials Science"},{"url":"https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/science-matters\/sciencematters-season-3-episode-8-digging-climate-clues-peat-moss","title":"ScienceMatters Season 3 Episode 8: Digging Up Climate Clues in Peat Moss "},{"url":"https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/science-matters\/sciencematters-season-3-episode-9-charting-paths-molecules","title":"ScienceMatters Season 3 Episode 9: Charting the Paths of Molecules"},{"url":"https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/science-matters\/sciencematters-season-3-episode-10-physics-ocean","title":"ScienceMatters Season 3 Episode 10: The Physics of the Ocean"}],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"1279","name":"School of Mathematics"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"443951","name":"School of Psychology"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"}],"keywords":[{"id":"182471","name":"ScienceMatters Season 3"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA. 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