Henry Chapman

Henry Chapman is a physicist who pioneered the method of serial crystallography using X-ray free-electron lasers to overcome the long-standing limitation of radiation damage in protein structure determination. He first demonstrated the approach while at LLNL (California), where he also helped develop EUV lithography and lensless imaging. At DESY and University of Hamburg, he continues to extend X-ray diffraction methods to produce movies of molecular dynamics and image single molecules. He was awarded the Leibniz Prize from DFG and the Aminoff Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy.