{"641935":{"#nid":"641935","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Physics of Living Systems Researcher Receives Top Honor from American Physical Society","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPhysics of Living Systems\u0026nbsp;researcher Jeremy England has received the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/aps.org\/publications\/apsnews\/updates\/spring2021.cfm\u0022\u003E2021 Irwin Oppenheim Award\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;from the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/aps.org\/\u0022\u003EAmerican Physical Society\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for his research on how elements of chemical systems make copies of themselves \u0026ndash; and whether scientists can design those capabilities when they try to build their own self-replicating chemical models.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe study of self-replicating systems has long fascinated\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.englandlab.com\/\u0022\u003EJeremy L. England\u003C\/a\u003E, who has worked with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and currently conducts research with Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Thinking about the physics of when self-copying things are likely to spontaneously emerge has been something I have been doing since I started my first faculty position,\u0026rdquo; England says.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEngland shares the Oppenheim Award with\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lanl.gov\/discover\/news-release-archive\/2020\/October\/1007-sumantra-sarkar.php\u0022\u003ESumantra Sarkar\u003C\/a\u003E, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lanl.gov\/\u0022\u003ELos Alamos National Laboratory\u003C\/a\u003E. The publication of their research in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/pre\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevE.100.022414\u0022\u003EPhysical Review E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in August 2019 was cited by the APS in their award description:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026ldquo;For developing a theory of the emergence of self-replication in simple chemical models, and the definition of general design principles for constructing self-replicating objects, which is published in the article entitled \u0026lsquo;Design of conditions for self-replication\u0026rsquo; in Physical Review E 100, 022414 (2019).\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am very excited and humbled by this totally unexpected honor,\u0026rdquo; England says. \u0026ldquo;Sumantra\u0026#39;s project was the first piece of work in our group that really focused on the \u0026lsquo;spontaneous emergence\u0026rsquo; aspect, and I think the most important thing about it is that we were trying to really be practical and concrete, and hopefully provide design principles that will make it easier for experimentalists to devise conditions in the future, where they can see this kind of emergence at play in processes of self-assembly they are trying to cultivate from mixtures of simple building blocks.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEngland is also part of a Georgia Tech research team that was awarded a $6.25 million Department of Defense\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2019\/04\/09\/researchers-awarded-625-million-study-collective-emergent-behavior\u0022\u003Egrant\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in April 2019 to examine collective emergent behavior for achieving task-oriented objectives.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Jeremy England shares 2021 Irwin Oppenheim Award with Los Alamos National Laboratory\u0027s Sumantra Sarkar for work on self-replication in chemical models "}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA researcher conducting studies with the School of Physics has won a major award for his work on how chemical models make copies of themselves, and whether scientists will be able to design that feature into their own models.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Jeremy England shares 2021 Irwin Oppenheim Award with Los Alamos National Laboratory\u0027s Sumantra Sarkar for work on self-replication in chemical models "}],"uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2020-12-08 14:42:10","changed_gmt":"2020-12-09 15:20:13","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-12-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-12-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"641936":{"id":"641936","type":"image","title":"Jeremy England ","body":null,"created":"1607438885","gmt_created":"2020-12-08 14:48:05","changed":"1607438885","gmt_changed":"2020-12-08 14:48:05","alt":"","file":{"fid":"243891","name":"Jeremy England headshot.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Jeremy%20England%20headshot.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Jeremy%20England%20headshot.png","mime":"image\/png","size":76926,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Jeremy%20England%20headshot.png?itok=zQkMlaH7"}}},"media_ids":["641936"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2019\/04\/09\/researchers-awarded-625-million-study-collective-emergent-behavior","title":"Researchers Awarded $6.25 Million to Study Collective Emergent Behavior"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.englandlab.com","title":"England Lab@Georgia Tech Physics"}],"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":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"186406","name":"Jeremy England"},{"id":"53281","name":"American Physical Society"},{"id":"186409","name":"Irwin Oppenheimer Award"},{"id":"186408","name":"self-replication"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERenay San Miguel\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCollege of Sciences\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n404-894-5209\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["renay.san@cos.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}