Henry N. Chapman

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

Henry N. Chapman
Born
Great Britain
Alma materUniversity of Melbourne
Known forX-ray crystallography
Coherent diffraction imaging
Scientific career
InstitutionsDESY, LLNL, NSLS

He is married to the Slovenian physicist Saša Bajt.[3]

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 on the National Synchrotron Light Source in the field of 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.[4]

Awards and honors

References
  1. Femtosecond X-ray protein nanocrystallography
  2. Crystallography of photosystem II
  3. Henry Chapman: Bright lights, brilliant experiments – Wiley Analytical Science
  4. Henry Chapman – DESY
  5. Gregori Aminoff Prize 2021
  6. Henry Chapman – Royal Sociey
  7. Roentgen Medal 2017 for Henry Chapman – DESY
  8. „Forschung von allerhöchster Qualität“: DFG vergibt Leibniz-Preise 2015
  9. Henry Chapman is awarded the Bjørn H. Wiik Prize – Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
  10. The Bragg Gold Medal for Excellence in Physics – Australian Institute of Physics
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