{"id":2921,"date":"2015-04-08T15:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T22:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2015-04-08T11:41:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:41:25","slug":"who-am-i-wednesday-wei-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2015\/04\/08\/who-am-i-wednesday-wei-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Am I? Wednesday &#8211; Wei Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Name: <\/strong>Wei Kong<\/p>\n<p><strong>Area of Study \/ Position Title:<\/strong> Professor in Physical Chemistry<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why chemistry? (What about it initially interested you?):<\/strong> Not much interest in chemistry initially, particularly O chem.\u00a0 Only wanted to do laser spectroscopy because of the mathematics involved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research focus (in non-science terms) or basic job duties?<\/strong> Develop a new technique to determine structures of macromolecules, and along the way, understanding fundamental properties of related physical processes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One thing you truly love about your job?<\/strong> The freedom to imagine<\/p>\n<p><strong>One interesting\/strange factoid about yourself.<\/strong> I do not like and cannot stand watching any games on baseball or golf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Wei Kong Area of Study \/ Position Title: Professor in Physical Chemistry Why chemistry? (What about it initially interested you?): Not much interest in chemistry initially, particularly O chem.\u00a0 Only wanted to do laser spectroscopy because of the mathematics involved. Research focus (in non-science terms) or basic job duties? Develop a new technique to&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2015\/04\/08\/who-am-i-wednesday-wei-kong\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187099,208276],"tags":[208278,187048,208281],"class_list":["post-2921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-mentions","category-who-am-i","tag-wai","tag-wei-kong","tag-who-am-i-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2922,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions\/2922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}