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Richard Neutze
Richard Neutze
Born	Richard John Neutze; 5 July 1969; Mid Canterbury, New Zealand
Died	28 April 2026 (aged 56)
Education	University of Canterbury
	Scientific career
Institutions	Uppsala University; University of Gothenburg
Thesis	Acceleration and optical interferometry (1995)
Doctoral advisor	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.^[1] He has contributed to the X-ray crystallography of biomolecules, including proposing the idea of diffract before destroy with Janos Hajdu and others,^[2] which contributed to the invention of serial femtosecond crystallography.^[3]

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.^[4] He later conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford, the University of Tübingen, and Uppsala University.^[5]

Neutze received the Young Scientist Award at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in 2000,^[6] and the Hugo Theorell Prize from the Swedish Biophysics Society in 2012.^[7]

↑ Marx, Vivien (28 August 2014). "Richard Neutze". Nature Methods. 11 (9): 877. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3074. ISSN 1548-7091. PMID 25317451. S2CID 42058880.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ Neutze, Richard (1995). Acceleration and optical interferometry (PhD thesis). UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury. hdl:10092/6569.
↑ Biochemistry; Zeel, New; Science. "With a passion for biochemistry". Science Faculty Magazine. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
↑ "The Young Scientist Award goes to Claudia Dallera". www.esrf.fr. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
↑ "Theorell-priset". Svenska Kemisamfundet (in Swedish). Retrieved 21 April 2022.