| RefNo | EC/2020/09 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Chapman, Henry Nicholas: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 14 April 2020 |
| Description | Certificate endorsing election of Henry Chapman as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Includes personal details of the elected Fellow, citaion giving the reasons for election, and names of proposers. Signed by the Executive Director of the Royal Society, Julie Maxton. |
| Citation | Henry Chapman has been responsible for many of the most brilliant ideas and breakthroughs in the new field of lensless imaging. This makes possible image-formation using radiations for which no lenses exist. In addition he was the first to demonstrate experimentally that radiation damage may be outrun, using sufficiently brief and intense pulses of radiation. In structural biology this has made it possible to record movies of molecular machines at work under near-physiological conditions, at atomic resolution, without the need to freeze samples to mitigate radiation damage. In 2009, Chapman led the first collaboration to demonstrate the use of an X-ray free-electron laser for protein crystallography. |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Computer printout |
| PhysicalDescription | A4 papers |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
| AccessConditions | Election certificates are subject to 50 year closure period from date of election. Details of proposers are kept confidential until the 50 year closure period has elapsed. |