Henry N. Chapman

Henry N. Chapman FRS (born 1967) is a British physicist and the founding director of the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science 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.

Henry N. Chapman
Born1967 (age 55–56)
Great Britain
Alma materUniversity of Melbourne
Known forX-ray crystallography
Coherent diffraction imaging
Scientific career
InstitutionsLawrence Livermore National Laboratory
University of California Davis
National Synchrotron Light Source
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
University of Hamburg
Doctoral advisorKeith Nugent
Stephen W. Wilkins

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

See also

References
  1. "Leibniz Prize 2015 for Henry N. Chapman". deutschland.de. Fazit Communication GmbH. 2 March 2015. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
  2. Femtosecond X-ray protein nanocrystallography
  3. Crystallography of photosystem II
  4. Henry Chapman: Bright lights, brilliant experiments – Wiley Analytical Science
  5. Henry Chapman – DESY
  6. Gregori Aminoff Prize 2021
  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
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