Henry N. Chapman

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Henry N. Chapman (* 1967 in Great Britain ) is a British biophysicist . He is the founding director of the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science at the German Electron Synchrotron DESY .

Life

After completing his doctorate at Melbourne University in the early 1990s, Chapman was a postgraduate fellow of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Australia. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Stony Brook University in New York State, then in the USA at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). In 2007 he went to DESY in Hamburg as founding director of the “Center for Free-Electron Laser Science” .

Chapman works on special, crystallographic processes in connection with the use of synchrotron radiation sources and X-ray lasers to decipher the structures of biomolecules.

In 2010 he was awarded the Bjørn H. Wiik Prize . For his pioneering work in the development of so-called serial femtosecond crystallography, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation for 2015. For 2017 he was awarded the X-ray plaque of the city of Remscheid. In 2020 Chapman was elected to the Royal Society .

Publications

  • (Co-author): Femtosecond coherent diffraction imaging with a soft X-ray free-electron laser. In: Nature Physics. 2, 2006, pp. 839-843.
  • (Co-author): Femtosecond time-delay X-ray holography. In: Nature. 448, 2007, pp. 676-679.
  • (Co-author): Femtosecond X-ray protein nanocrystallography. In: Nature. 470, 2011, pp. 73-77.
  • with ND Loh, MJ Bogan et al .: Fractal morphology, imaging and mass spectrometry of single aerosol particles in flight. In: Nature. 486, 2012, pp. 513-517.
  • with L. Redecke, K. Nass et al .: Natively inhibited Trypanosoma brucei cathepsin B structure determined using an x-ray laser. In: Science. 339, 2013, pp. 227-230.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information from: From Matter to Materials and Life 2015–2019. Helmholtz program proposal of the Helmholtz Association , vol. 2, 2014, p. 9.
  2. ↑ Leibniz Prize for DESY researchers ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Helmholtz Association, accessed on December 11, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.helmholtz.de
personal data
SURNAME Chapman, Henry N.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British experimental physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Great Britain