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Janos Hajdu
Janos Hajdu
Visiting Physicist
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650-926-5593
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PULSE Institute, SLAC
2575 Sand Hill Road MS 59
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Visiting Physicist from Uppsala University.
- The 4th dimension in X-ray crystallography: First atomic movies on chemical reactions in crystals.
- Development of Laue crystallography: First electron density maps for protein and virus crystals.
- Proposal for a link between steps in protein folding and structural changes in protein function.
- First structural characterisation of the family of mononuclear ferrous enzymes.
- Proposal for reaching femtosecond time-resolution in X-ray diffraction studies.
- Estimates on the physical limits in ultrafast imaging.
- Proposal for reaching atomic resolution in studies on non-repetitive structures.
- The scientific case (in imaging) for hard X-ray free-electron lasers (SLAC, DESY).
- Starting SPPS, the Short Pulse Photon Source, at SLAC.
- First demonstration of flash diffractive imaging of non-repetitive objects with a free-electron laser.
- Elected to the Kungliga Vetenskap-Societeten (The Swedish Royal Society)
- Award from the Swedish Strategic Foundation for Outstanding Individual Achievements
- Centre of Excellence Award from the Swedish Research Council.
- Member of Congregation, Oxford University, U.K.