OPN Talks with Henry C. Kapteyn and Margaret M. Murnane

Lyndsay Basista

Our conversation with Henry C. Kapteyn and Margaret M. Murnane, ultrafast laser experts and Arthur L. Schawlow prize recipients.

 

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Shakespeare said, "Let not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments." While he may not have had the obstacles of generating coherent X-rays and intense light pulses in mind when he wrote that, clearly Henry Kapteyn and his wife, Margaret Murnane, have been through many scientific challenges together.

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