{"id":610,"date":"2014-12-29T08:56:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T14:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/?p=610"},"modified":"2014-12-29T08:56:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T14:56:07","slug":"iwu-alumnus-professor-create-a-top-10-physics-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/2014\/12\/29\/iwu-alumnus-professor-create-a-top-10-physics-breakthrough\/","title":{"rendered":"IWU Alumnus, Professor Create a Top 10 Physics Breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/files\/2014\/12\/spalding-gabe-and-patrick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-611 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/files\/2014\/12\/spalding-gabe-and-patrick-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"spalding-gabe-and-patrick\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/files\/2014\/12\/spalding-gabe-and-patrick-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/files\/2014\/12\/spalding-gabe-and-patrick-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/files\/2014\/12\/spalding-gabe-and-patrick-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/files\/2014\/12\/spalding-gabe-and-patrick.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Patrick Dahl &#8217;12 and\u00a0Illinois Wesleyan University physics professor Gabriel Spalding were recognized in\u00a0<em>Physics World\u00a0<\/em>magazine for their team&#8217;s creation of the first acoustic tractor beam. The tractor beam was named a top-10 breakthrough in physics in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The team, which also included Christine D\u00e9mor\u00e9 and Mike MacDonald of the University of Dundee, Scotland, was recognized for creating the first acoustic tractor beam by using energy from an ultrasound array to exert force behind a centimeter-sized object and pull it toward the energy source.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The immediate application of the new tractor beam technology is medical. One goal is to improve ultrasound surgery used to treat and destroy tumors more effectively and efficiently. It could also be used to treat Parkinson\u2019s disease and chronic pain, or to deliver prescription drugs to a precise point in the body or a safe supply of universal donor blood, according to Spalding, who is the B. Charles and Joyce Eichhorn Ames Professor of Physics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To\u00a0learn more about this ground-breaking invention, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwu.edu\/news\/2014\/tractor-beam-named-top-10-physics-breakthrough.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Dahl &#8217;12 and\u00a0Illinois Wesleyan University physics professor Gabriel Spalding were recognized in\u00a0Physics World\u00a0magazine for their team&#8217;s creation of the first acoustic tractor beam. The tractor beam was named a top-10 breakthrough in physics in 2014. &#8220;The team, which also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/2014\/12\/29\/iwu-alumnus-professor-create-a-top-10-physics-breakthrough\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-page"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}