{"id":5315,"date":"2022-11-02T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T22:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=5315"},"modified":"2022-11-01T17:52:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T07:52:13","slug":"book-launch-the-wizards-of-oz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2022\/11\/02\/book-launch-the-wizards-of-oz\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Launch: &#8220;The Wizards of Oz&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday 25 October QUT Vice-Chancellor, Professor Margaret Sheil hosted a book launch for QUT School of Justice Adjunct Professor The Honourable Dr Brett Mason for his new book, &#8220;Wizards of Oz&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wizards of Oz&#8221; tells the story of childhood friends physicist Mark Oliphant and medical researcher Howard Florey and their contribution to significant scientific and industrial projects of the Second World War: manufacturing penicillin, developing microwave radar and building the atomic bomb. These innovations gave the Allies the edge and ultimate victory over Germany and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the book <a href=\"https:\/\/unsw.press\/books\/wizards-of-oz\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday 25 October QUT Vice-Chancellor, Professor Margaret Sheil hosted a book launch for QUT School of Justice Adjunct Professor The Honourable Dr Brett Mason for his new book, &#8220;Wizards of Oz&#8221;. &#8220;Wizards of Oz&#8221; tells the story of childhood friends physicist Mark Oliphant and medical researcher Howard Florey and their contribution to significant scientific<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4341,"featured_media":5316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9696],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-publications"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5317,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315\/revisions\/5317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}