Boulder professors recognized with prestigious award

Professors Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn have won the 2010 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science from the American Physical Society.

The award recognizes Murnane and Kapteyn for "pioneering work in the area of ultrafast laser science, including development of ultrafast optical and coherent soft X-ray sources." Murnane and Kapteyn lead an interdisciplinary research group at CU's Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, where they develop lasers and X-ray sources for experiments in physics, chemistry, materials science and engineering.

Murnane

Kapteyn