Henry N. Chapman

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Henry N. Chapman
Born1967 (age 58–59)
Great Britain
Alma mater University of Melbourne
Known for X-ray crystallography
Coherent diffraction imaging
Scientific career
Institutions Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
University of California Davis
National Synchrotron Light Source
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
University of Hamburg
Doctoral advisor Keith Nugent
Stephen W. Wilkins
Other academic advisors David Sayre

Henry N. Chapman FRS (born 1967) is a British physicist and the founding director of the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science [ dead link ] at the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY). [1] He has made numerous contributions to the field of x-ray coherent diffraction imaging and is a pioneer of the diffraction before destruction technique [2] that allows to analyze biological samples with intense, ultrafast x-ray light, such as Photosystem II, [3] a key macromolecule in photosynthesis.

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He is married to the Slovenian physicist Saša Bajt. [4]

Education and career

Henry Chapman earned his Ph.D. from Melbourne University, in Australia. He then joined Stony Brook University in the United States, working in the group of Chris Jacobsen on the National Synchrotron Light Source in the field of coherent diffraction imaging and X-ray crystallography. In 1996 he joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he worked on extreme ultraviolet lithography. In 2007, he moved to DESY to become the Founding Director of CFEL Coherent Imaging Group. [5]

Awards and honors

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References

  1. ↑ "Leibniz Prize 2015 for Henry N. Chapman". deutschland.de. Fazit Communication GmbH. 2 March 2015. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
  2. ↑ Chapman, Henry N.; et al. (2011). "Femtosecond X-ray protein nanocrystallography". Nature. 470 (7332): 73–77. doi:10.1038/nature09750. PMC   3429598 . PMID   21293373.
  3. ↑ Kupitz, Christopher; et al. (2014). "Serial time-resolved crystallography of photosystem II using a femtosecond X-ray laser". Nature. 513 (7517): 261–265. doi:10.1038/nature13453. PMC   4821544 . PMID   25043005.
  4. ↑ Pool, Rebecca (22 June 2020). "Henry Chapman: Bright lights, brilliant experiments". Wiley Analytical Science.
  5. ↑ Henry Chapman – DESY
  6. ↑ "Gregori Aminoff Prize 2021". Archived from the original on 26 June 2022. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
  7. ↑ Henry Chapman – Royal Society
  8. ↑ Roentgen Medal 2017 for Henry Chapman – DESY
  9. ↑ „Forschung von allerhöchster Qualität“: DFG vergibt Leibniz-Preise 2015
  10. ↑ Henry Chapman is awarded the Bjørn H. Wiik Prize – Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
  11. ↑ "The Bragg Gold Medal for Excellence in Physics – Australian Institute of Physics". Archived from the original on 14 September 2020. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
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