{"id":431,"date":"2014-10-30T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.eda.kent.ac.uk\/news-ext\/2014\/10\/30\/a-full-house-for-the-inaugural-jennison-lecture-thunderbolts-lightning-are-they-really-frightening\/"},"modified":"2014-10-30T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T01:00:00","slug":"a-full-house-for-the-inaugural-jennison-lecture-thunderbolts-lightning-are-they-really-frightening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2014\/10\/30\/a-full-house-for-the-inaugural-jennison-lecture-thunderbolts-lightning-are-they-really-frightening\/","title":{"rendered":"A full house for the inaugural Jennison Lecture &#8220;Thunderbolts &amp; Lightning &#8211; are they really frightening?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The School of Engineering and Digital Arts&#8217; Jennison Lecture Theatre was fully booked on Wednesday 22nd October at 6 pm for the inaugural Jennison Lecture, kindly sponsored by the IET which featured Rhys Phillips, Research Engineer, Lightning &amp; Electrostatics, from Airbus Group Innovations UK delivering an informative and entertaining presentation on &#8216;Thunderbolts and Lightning &#8211; are they really frightening?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Paraphrasing that famous line from Queen&#8217;s Bohemian Rhapsody, Rhys looked at the phenomenon of lightning and explained, with lots of audience participation, the processes which lead to a lightning strike and the different types of lightning that can exist.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture, the first in a series of six organised and hosted by EDA to celebrate the University of Kent&#8217;s 50th anniversary, included a special homage to the late Professor Roger Jennison, founder of EDA, and his work on ball lightning.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Engineering and Digital Arts&#8217; Jennison Lecture Theatre was fully booked on Wednesday 22nd October at 6 pm for the inaugural Jennison Lecture, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2014\/10\/30\/a-full-house-for-the-inaugural-jennison-lecture-thunderbolts-lightning-are-they-really-frightening\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}