Richard Neutze

Richard Neutze
Born
Richard John Neutze

(1969-07-05)5 July 1969
Mid Canterbury, New Zealand
Died28 April 2026(2026-04-28) (aged 56)
EducationUniversity of Canterbury
Scientific career
WorkplacesUppsala University
University of Gothenburg
ThesisAcceleration and optical interferometry (1995)
Geoff Stedman
William Moreau
Other academic advisors
Janos Hajdu

Richard John Neutze (5 July 1969 – 28 April 2026) was a biophysicist from New Zealand, and a professor of biochemistry in the Department of Chemistry & Molecular Biology at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. He has contributed to the X-ray crystallography of biomolecules, including proposing the idea of diffract before destroy with Janos Hajdu and others, which contributed to the invention of serial femtosecond crystallography.

Education and career

Neutze graduated with a BSc in physics in 1991 and a PhD in biophysics in 1995 from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, where his supervisor was Geoff Stedman. He later conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford, the University of Tübingen, and Uppsala University.

Honors and awards

Neutze received the Young Scientist Award at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in 2000, and the Hugo Theorell Prize from the Swedish Biophysics Society in 2012.

References

  1. ↑ Marx, Vivien (28 August 2014). "Richard Neutze". Nature Methods. 11 (9): 877. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3074. ISSN 1548-7091. PMID 25317451. S2CID 42058880.
  2. ↑ Neutze, Richard; Wouts, Remco; van der Spoel, David; Weckert, Edgar; Hajdu, Janos (17 August 2000). "Potential for biomolecular imaging with femtosecond X-ray pulses". Nature. 406 (6797): 752–757. Bibcode:2000Natur.406..752N. doi:10.1038/35021099. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 10963603. S2CID 4300920.
  3. ↑ Martin-Garcia, Jose M.; Conrad, Chelsie E.; Coe, Jesse; Roy-Chowdhury, Shatabdi; Fromme, Petra (15 July 2016). "Serial femtosecond crystallography: A revolution in structural biology". Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 602: 32–47. doi:10.1016/j.abb.2016.03.036. PMC 4909539. PMID 27143509.
  4. ↑ Neutze, Richard (1995). Acceleration and optical interferometry (PhD thesis). UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury. hdl:10092/6569.
  5. ↑ Biochemistry; Zeel, New; Science. "With a passion for biochemistry". Science Faculty Magazine. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
  6. ↑ "The Young Scientist Award goes to Claudia Dallera". www.esrf.fr. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
  7. ↑ "Theorell-priset". Svenska Kemisamfundet (in Swedish). Retrieved 21 April 2022.