Henry N. Chapman | |
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| Born | 1967 (age 56–57) |
| 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 |
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.
He is married to the Slovenian physicist Saša Bajt.[4]