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{{Short description|Irish physicist (born 1959)}}
{{Short description|Irish physicist (born 1959)}}
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'''Margaret Mary Murnane''' (born 23 January 1959) is an Irish [[Physics|physicist]], who served as a distinguished professor of physics at the [[University of Colorado Boulder]], having moved there in 1999, with past positions at the [[University of Michigan]] and [[Washington State University]]. She is the director of the STROBE NSF Science and Technology Center and a researcher in [[laser science]] and technology.


Her interests and research contributions span topics including [[atomic, molecular, and optical physics]], [[nanoscience]], laser technology, materials and [[chemical dynamics]], [[Plasma (physics)|plasma physics]], and [[imaging]] science. Her work has earned her awards<ref name=NAS1>{{cite web|title=Murnane, Margaret M.|url=https://www.nasonline.org/directory-entry/margaret-m-murnane-lsbbbu|work=National Academy of Sciences|accessdate=17 February 2026}}</ref><ref name=APS>{{cite web|title=1990 Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award Recipient|url=https://www.aps.org/funding-recognition/winners?q=murnane&af=false|work=American Physical Society|accessdate=17 February 2026}}</ref><ref name=APS-Mayer1>{{cite web|title=1997 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award Recipient|url=https://www.aps.org/funding-recognition/winners?q=murnane&af=false|work=American Physical Society|accessdate=17 February 2026}}</ref> including the [[MacArthur Fellowship]] award in 2000, the Frederic Ives Medal/Quinn Prize in 2017, the highest award of [[The Optical Society]], and the 2021 [[Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute)|Benjamin Franklin Medal]] in Physics.
 
'''Margaret Mary Murnane''' (born 23 January 1959) is an Irish physicist, who served as a distinguished professor of physics at the University of Colorado Boulder, having moved there in 1999, with past positions at the University of Michigan and Washington State University. She is the director of the STROBE NSF Science and Technology Center and a researcher in [[laser science]] and technology.
 
Her interests and research contributions span topics including [[atomic, molecular, and optical physics]], [[nanoscience]], laser technology, materials and [[chemical dynamics]], plasma physics, and [[imaging]] science. Her work has earned her awards<ref name=NAS1>{{cite web|title=Murnane, Margaret M.|url=https://www.nasonline.org/directory-entry/margaret-m-murnane-lsbbbu|work=National Academy of Sciences|accessdate=17 February 2026}}</ref><ref name=APS>{{cite web|title=1990 Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award Recipient|url=https://www.aps.org/funding-recognition/winners?q=murnane&af=false|work=American Physical Society|accessdate=17 February 2026}}</ref><ref name=APS-Mayer1>{{cite web|title=1997 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award Recipient|url=https://www.aps.org/funding-recognition/winners?q=murnane&af=false|work=American Physical Society|accessdate=17 February 2026}}</ref> including the MacArthur Fellowship award in 2000, the Frederic Ives Medal/Quinn Prize in 2017, the highest award of The Optical Society, and the 2021 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics.


== Early life ==
== Early life ==
Born and raised in [[County Limerick]], Ireland, Murnane became interested in physics through her father who was a [[primary school]] teacher. She received her [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] and [[Ms.|M.S.]] from [[University College, Cork]].<ref name=APS-Mayer>{{cite web |title=1997 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award Recipient |url=https://www.aps.org/funding-recognition/winners?q=murnane&af=false |publisher=American Physical Society |access-date=17 February 2026}}</ref> She moved to the United States to study at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], where she earned her [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] in 1989 under [[Roger Falcone]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Fiez|first=Terry|title=Margaret Murnane |url=https://www.colorado.edu/researchinnovation/2021/03/18/buff-innovator-insights-podcast-dr-margaret-murnane-jila-physics-strobe
Born and raised in County Limerick, Ireland, Murnane became interested in physics through her father who was a [[primary school]] teacher. She received her B.A. and M.S. from University College, Cork.<ref name=APS-Mayer>{{cite web |title=1997 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award Recipient |url=https://www.aps.org/funding-recognition/winners?q=murnane&af=false |publisher=American Physical Society |access-date=17 February 2026}}</ref> She moved to the United States to study at the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned her PhD in 1989 under Roger Falcone.<ref>{{cite web |last=Fiez|first=Terry|title=Margaret Murnane |url=https://www.colorado.edu/researchinnovation/2021/03/18/buff-innovator-insights-podcast-dr-margaret-murnane-jila-physics-strobe
|publisher=American Institute of Physics |date=18 March 2021|access-date=17 February 2026 |quote=Interview with Margaret Murnane (professor of physics at University of Colorado Boulder, JILA fellow, NSF STROBE director.}}</ref> She is married to [[Henry Kapteyn]]. They work together and operate their own lab at [[JILA]] at the University of Colorado.<ref name=PNAS1>{{Cite journal  
|publisher=American Institute of Physics |date=18 March 2021|access-date=17 February 2026 |quote=Interview with Margaret Murnane (professor of physics at University of Colorado Boulder, JILA fellow, NSF STROBE director.}}</ref> She is married to Henry Kapteyn. They work together and operate their own lab at JILA at the University of Colorado.<ref name=PNAS1>{{Cite journal  
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== Career ==
== Career ==
Murnane has co-authored more than 500 articles in [[Peer review|peer reviewed]] journals, with her work receiving around 35000 [[Citation|citations]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fbL5uSAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao |title=Margaret Murnane Google Scholar profile | work= University of Colorado at Boulder |accessdate=1 October 2018}}</ref> She is a founder of the [[Field of study|field]] of [[ultrafast X-ray]] science, having made contributions to this area of research in every decade since the 1980s. She has developed her university-based laboratory effort in collaboration with Kapteyn.<ref>{{cite web |title=About the Kapteyn-Murnane Group |url=https://jila.colorado.edu/kmgroup |website=JILA |publisher=University of Colorado Boulder & NIST |access-date=17 February 2026 |quote=Describes joint research in ultrafast coherent EUV and X-ray beams, quantum materials, etc.}}</ref>
Murnane has co-authored more than 500 articles in peer reviewed journals, with her work receiving around 35000 citations.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fbL5uSAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao |title=Margaret Murnane Google Scholar profile | work= University of Colorado at Boulder |accessdate=1 October 2018}}</ref> She is a founder of the field of [[ultrafast X-ray]] science, having made contributions to this area of research in every decade since the 1980s. She has developed her university-based laboratory effort in collaboration with Kapteyn.<ref>{{cite web |title=About the Kapteyn-Murnane Group |url=https://jila.colorado.edu/kmgroup |website=JILA |publisher=University of Colorado Boulder & NIST |access-date=17 February 2026 |quote=Describes joint research in ultrafast coherent EUV and X-ray beams, quantum materials, etc.}}</ref>


In their lab, Murnane, Kapteyn, and their students make lasers whose beams flash like a [[strobe light]] – except that each flash is a [[trillion]] times faster. These lasers, like camera flashes, make it possible to record the motions of atoms in [[Chemical reaction|chemical reactions]], and of atoms and [[Electron|electrons]] in materials systems. Some of her lasers can generate [[Pulse (physics)|pulses]] of less than 10 [[femtoseconds]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Laser pioneer Margaret Murnane bags 2022 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize |url=https://physicsworld.com/a/laser-pioneer-margaret-murnane-bags-2022-isaac-newton-medal-and-prize |website=Physics World |date=25 October 2022 |access-date=17 February 2026 |quote=Murnane and colleagues created a titanium-doped sapphire laser generating pulses lasting less than 10 femtoseconds.}}</ref>The very high peak power of these ultrashort laser pulses makes it possible to coherently [[Photon upconversion|upconvert]] light to much shorter [[Wavelength|wavelengths]], in the extreme [[ultraviolet]] and [[Soft X-ray microscopy|soft X-ray]] region of the spectrum. This [[high harmonic generation]] process makes possible a tabletop-scale X-ray laser light source.  
In their lab, Murnane, Kapteyn, and their students make lasers whose beams flash like a [[strobe light]] – except that each flash is a [[trillion]] times faster. These lasers, like camera flashes, make it possible to record the motions of atoms in chemical reactions, and of atoms and electrons in materials systems. Some of her lasers can generate pulses of less than 10 [[femtoseconds]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Laser pioneer Margaret Murnane bags 2022 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize |url=https://physicsworld.com/a/laser-pioneer-margaret-murnane-bags-2022-isaac-newton-medal-and-prize |website=Physics World |date=25 October 2022 |access-date=17 February 2026 |quote=Murnane and colleagues created a titanium-doped sapphire laser generating pulses lasting less than 10 femtoseconds.}}</ref>The very high peak power of these ultrashort laser pulses makes it possible to coherently upconvert light to much shorter wavelengths, in the extreme [[ultraviolet]] and soft X-ray region of the spectrum. This [[high harmonic generation]] process makes possible a tabletop-scale X-ray laser light source.  


Murnane explored the use of femtosecond lasers for x-ray generation and has made substantive contributions to many aspects of this area of research, including the understanding of the [[High harmonic generation|high harmonic]] process, the laser technology required to use this process to implement practical tabletop light sources for applications, and in applying this new source to make fundamental discoveries in areas ranging from basic atomic and chemical dynamics to materials dynamics, to nanoimaging. She is also a founder of the area now known as experimental "[[Attosecond science|Attosecond Science]]", having performed experiments that demonstrated the ability to manipulate electron dynamics with [[attosecond]] precision.<ref>{{cite journal
Murnane explored the use of femtosecond lasers for x-ray generation and has made substantive contributions to many aspects of this area of research, including the understanding of the high harmonic process, the laser technology required to use this process to implement practical tabletop light sources for applications, and in applying this new source to make fundamental discoveries in areas ranging from basic atomic and chemical dynamics to materials dynamics, to nanoimaging. She is also a founder of the area now known as experimental "Attosecond Science", having performed experiments that demonstrated the ability to manipulate electron dynamics with [[attosecond]] precision.<ref>{{cite journal
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She is the co-founder of the laser company KMLabs, Inc.,<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.kmlabs.com/founders-leadership-team |title = Founders and Leadership Team | publisher=KMLABS}}</ref> for which [[Intel Capital]] is a co-investor.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://optics.org/news/6/11/8 |title = Intel backs KMLabs' ultrafast laser development}}</ref>
She is the co-founder of the laser company KMLabs, Inc.,<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.kmlabs.com/founders-leadership-team |title = Founders and Leadership Team | publisher=KMLABS}}</ref> for which Intel Capital is a co-investor.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://optics.org/news/6/11/8 |title = Intel backs KMLabs' ultrafast laser development}}</ref>


== Honours ==
== Honours ==
* 1998 Fellow of [[Optica (society)|The Optical Society]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Margaret M. Murnane |url=https://www.optica.org/history/biographies/bios/margaret_m_murnane |publisher=Optica |quote=Fellow - 1998 |access-date=17 February 2026}}</ref>
* 1998 Fellow of The Optical Society<ref>{{cite web |title=Margaret M. Murnane |url=https://www.optica.org/history/biographies/bios/margaret_m_murnane |publisher=Optica |quote=Fellow - 1998 |access-date=17 February 2026}}</ref>
* 2000 [[MacArthur Fellows Program|John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Margaret Murnane |url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2000/margaret-murnane |publisher=MacArthur Foundation |access-date=17 February 2026}}</ref>
* 2000 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow<ref>{{cite web |title=Margaret Murnane |url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2000/margaret-murnane |publisher=MacArthur Foundation |access-date=17 February 2026}}</ref>
* 2001 Fellow of the [[American Physical Society]]<ref name="jila">{{cite web |title=Murnane |url=https://jila.colorado.edu/kmgroup/people/murnane |publisher=JILA, University of Colorado Boulder |access-date=17 February 2026}}</ref>
* 2001 Fellow of the American Physical Society<ref name="jila">{{cite web |title=Murnane |url=https://jila.colorado.edu/kmgroup/people/murnane |publisher=JILA, University of Colorado Boulder |access-date=17 February 2026}}</ref>
* 2003 [[Richtmyer Memorial Award]] Lecturer of the [[American Association of Physics Teachers]]
* 2003 Richtmyer Memorial Award Lecturer of the American Association of Physics Teachers
* 2003 Fellow of the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]]<ref name="jila" />
* 2003 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science<ref name="jila" />
* 2004 Member of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]]<ref name="jila" />
* 2004 Member of the National Academy of Sciences<ref name="jila" />
* 2006 Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web
* 2006 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web
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* 2007 Fellow of the [[Association for Women in Science]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2007/103.html |title=CU Professor Margaret Murnane Honored By National Women's Science Organization |work=University of Colorado at Boulder |access-date=17 February 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070317171142/http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2007/103.html |archive-date=17 March 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 2007 Fellow of the Association for Women in Science<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2007/103.html |title=CU Professor Margaret Murnane Honored By National Women's Science Organization |work=University of Colorado at Boulder |access-date=17 February 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070317171142/http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2007/103.html |archive-date=17 March 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 2010 [[Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Talbott |first=Clint |date=February 12, 2010 |title=Ultra-fast laser research wins top prize |url=https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine-archive/node/404 |access-date=17 February 2026 |website=www.colorado.edu |language=en}}</ref>
* 2010 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science<ref>{{Cite web |last=Talbott |first=Clint |date=February 12, 2010 |title=Ultra-fast laser research wins top prize |url=https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine-archive/node/404 |access-date=17 February 2026 |website=www.colorado.edu |language=en}}</ref>
* 2010 [[R. W. Wood Prize]], The Optical Society<ref>{{Cite web|title=R. W. Wood Prize|url=https://www.optica.org/en-us/awards_and_grants/awards/award_description/rwwood/|website=Optica|access-date=17 February 2026}}</ref>
* 2010 R. W. Wood Prize, The Optical Society<ref>{{Cite web|title=R. W. Wood Prize|url=https://www.optica.org/en-us/awards_and_grants/awards/award_description/rwwood/|website=Optica|access-date=17 February 2026}}</ref>
* 2011 [[Boyle Medal]]<ref>[https://www.rds.ie/Ireland-s-Philanthropic-Society/Our-Work/Projects/RDS-Irish-Times-Boyle-Medal-for-Scientific-Excelle/Boyle-Medal-Laureates Boyle Medal Laureates] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402102130/https://www.rds.ie/Ireland-s-Philanthropic-Society/Our-Work/Projects/RDS-Irish-Times-Boyle-Medal-for-Scientific-Excelle/Boyle-Medal-Laureates |date=2 April 2019 }} [[Royal Dublin Society]]</ref>
* 2011 Boyle Medal<ref>[https://www.rds.ie/Ireland-s-Philanthropic-Society/Our-Work/Projects/RDS-Irish-Times-Boyle-Medal-for-Scientific-Excelle/Boyle-Medal-Laureates Boyle Medal Laureates] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402102130/https://www.rds.ie/Ireland-s-Philanthropic-Society/Our-Work/Projects/RDS-Irish-Times-Boyle-Medal-for-Scientific-Excelle/Boyle-Medal-Laureates |date=2 April 2019 }} Royal Dublin Society</ref>
* 2012 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lambaward.org/2012/2012-murnane.html|title=The 2012 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics: Margaret M. Murnane|work=The Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics|access-date=17 February 2026}}</ref>
* 2012 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lambaward.org/2012/2012-murnane.html|title=The 2012 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics: Margaret M. Murnane|work=The Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics|access-date=17 February 2026}}</ref>
* 2015 Honorary doctorate from [[Trinity College Dublin]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcd.ie/registrar/honorary-degrees/2014-15/|title=Registrar : Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Ireland|website=www.tcd.ie|access-date=17 February 2026}}</ref>
* 2015 Honorary doctorate from Trinity College Dublin<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcd.ie/registrar/honorary-degrees/2014-15/|title=Registrar : Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Ireland|website=www.tcd.ie|access-date=17 February 2026}}</ref>
* 2015 Member of the [[American Philosophical Society]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://connections.cu.edu/people/murnane-elected-american-philosophical-society|title=Murnane elected to American Philosophical Society|date=28 May 2015|website=CU Connections|access-date=17 February 2026}}</ref>
* 2015 Member of the American Philosophical Society<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://connections.cu.edu/people/murnane-elected-american-philosophical-society|title=Murnane elected to American Philosophical Society|date=28 May 2015|website=CU Connections|access-date=17 February 2026}}</ref>
* 2016 honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Science and Technology at [[Uppsala University]], [[Sweden]]<ref>{{Cite web|title = Three new honorary doctorates in Science and Technology – Uppsala University, Sweden|url = http://www.uu.se/en/research/grants-awards/article/?id=5398&area=2,5,12,16&typ=artikel&lang=en|website = uu.se|access-date = 17 February 2026}}</ref>
* 2016 honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Science and Technology at Uppsala University, Sweden<ref>{{Cite web|title = Three new honorary doctorates in Science and Technology – Uppsala University, Sweden|url = http://www.uu.se/en/research/grants-awards/article/?id=5398&area=2,5,12,16&typ=artikel&lang=en|website = uu.se|access-date = 17 February 2026}}</ref>
* 2017 Frederic Ives Medal/Quinn Prize in optics from The Optical Society<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.colorado.edu/physics/2017/02/20/professor-margaret-murnane-wins-highest-medal-optical-society|title=Professor Margaret Murnane Wins Highest Medal from The Optical Society|date=2017-02-20|work=Physics|access-date=17 February 2026|language=en}}</ref>
* 2017 Frederic Ives Medal/Quinn Prize in optics from The Optical Society<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.colorado.edu/physics/2017/02/20/professor-margaret-murnane-wins-highest-medal-optical-society|title=Professor Margaret Murnane Wins Highest Medal from The Optical Society|date=2017-02-20|work=Physics|access-date=17 February 2026|language=en}}</ref>
* 2021 [[Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute)]] in Physics<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fi.edu/laureates/margaret-murnane|title = Margaret M. Murnane|date = 25 January 2020|access-date=17 February 2026}}</ref> (shared with Henry Kapteyn)
* 2021 Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) in Physics<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fi.edu/laureates/margaret-murnane|title = Margaret M. Murnane|date = 25 January 2020|access-date=17 February 2026}}</ref> (shared with Henry Kapteyn)
* 2022 [[Isaac Newton Medal]], from [[Institute of Physics]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://physicsworld.com/laser-pioneer-margaret-murnane-bags-2022-isaac-newton-medal-and-prize/|title=Laser pioneer Margaret Murnane bags 2022 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize|first=Michael|last=Banks|date=25 October 2022|publisher=IOP|work=Physics world|access-date=17 February 2026}}</ref>
* 2022 Isaac Newton Medal, from Institute of Physics<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://physicsworld.com/laser-pioneer-margaret-murnane-bags-2022-isaac-newton-medal-and-prize/|title=Laser pioneer Margaret Murnane bags 2022 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize|first=Michael|last=Banks|date=25 October 2022|publisher=IOP|work=Physics world|access-date=17 February 2026}}</ref>
* 2023 honorary doctorate from the [[University of Salamanca]], Spain<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 22, 2023 |title=Margaret Murnane and Antonio Colinas new Doctors Honoris Causa from USAL |url=https://laser.usal.es/alf/en/2023/06/22/margaret-murnane-and-antonio-colinas-new-doctors-honoris-causa-from-usal/ |access-date=17 February 2026 |language=en-GB}}</ref>
* 2023 honorary doctorate from the University of Salamanca, Spain<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 22, 2023 |title=Margaret Murnane and Antonio Colinas new Doctors Honoris Causa from USAL |url=https://laser.usal.es/alf/en/2023/06/22/margaret-murnane-and-antonio-colinas-new-doctors-honoris-causa-from-usal/ |access-date=17 February 2026 |language=en-GB}}</ref>


==Publications==
==Publications==
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Margaret M. Murnane


Born Template:Birth date
County Limerick, Ireland


Known for Founder of the field of ultrafast x-ray science
KMLabs Co-founder



Margaret Mary Murnane (born 23 January 1959) is an Irish physicist, who served as a distinguished professor of physics at the University of Colorado Boulder, having moved there in 1999, with past positions at the University of Michigan and Washington State University. She is the director of the STROBE NSF Science and Technology Center and a researcher in laser science and technology.

Her interests and research contributions span topics including atomic, molecular, and optical physics, nanoscience, laser technology, materials and chemical dynamics, plasma physics, and imaging science. Her work has earned her awards[1][2][3] including the MacArthur Fellowship award in 2000, the Frederic Ives Medal/Quinn Prize in 2017, the highest award of The Optical Society, and the 2021 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics.

Early life

Born and raised in County Limerick, Ireland, Murnane became interested in physics through her father who was a primary school teacher. She received her B.A. and M.S. from University College, Cork.[4] She moved to the United States to study at the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned her PhD in 1989 under Roger Falcone.[5] She is married to Henry Kapteyn. They work together and operate their own lab at JILA at the University of Colorado.[6]

Career

Murnane has co-authored more than 500 articles in peer reviewed journals, with her work receiving around 35000 citations.[7] She is a founder of the field of ultrafast X-ray science, having made contributions to this area of research in every decade since the 1980s. She has developed her university-based laboratory effort in collaboration with Kapteyn.[8]

In their lab, Murnane, Kapteyn, and their students make lasers whose beams flash like a strobe light – except that each flash is a trillion times faster. These lasers, like camera flashes, make it possible to record the motions of atoms in chemical reactions, and of atoms and electrons in materials systems. Some of her lasers can generate pulses of less than 10 femtoseconds.[9]The very high peak power of these ultrashort laser pulses makes it possible to coherently upconvert light to much shorter wavelengths, in the extreme ultraviolet and soft X-ray region of the spectrum. This high harmonic generation process makes possible a tabletop-scale X-ray laser light source.

Murnane explored the use of femtosecond lasers for x-ray generation and has made substantive contributions to many aspects of this area of research, including the understanding of the high harmonic process, the laser technology required to use this process to implement practical tabletop light sources for applications, and in applying this new source to make fundamental discoveries in areas ranging from basic atomic and chemical dynamics to materials dynamics, to nanoimaging. She is also a founder of the area now known as experimental "Attosecond Science", having performed experiments that demonstrated the ability to manipulate electron dynamics with attosecond precision.[10] [11] She is the co-founder of the laser company KMLabs, Inc.,[12] for which Intel Capital is a co-investor.[13]

Honours

  • 1998 Fellow of The Optical Society[14]
  • 2000 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow[15]
  • 2001 Fellow of the American Physical Society[16]
  • 2003 Richtmyer Memorial Award Lecturer of the American Association of Physics Teachers
  • 2003 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science[16]
  • 2004 Member of the National Academy of Sciences[16]
  • 2006 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[17]
  • 2007 Fellow of the Association for Women in Science[18]
  • 2010 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science[19]
  • 2010 R. W. Wood Prize, The Optical Society[20]
  • 2011 Boyle Medal[21]
  • 2012 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics[22]
  • 2015 Honorary doctorate from Trinity College Dublin[23]
  • 2015 Member of the American Philosophical Society[24]
  • 2016 honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Science and Technology at Uppsala University, Sweden[25]
  • 2017 Frederic Ives Medal/Quinn Prize in optics from The Optical Society[26]
  • 2021 Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) in Physics[27] (shared with Henry Kapteyn)
  • 2022 Isaac Newton Medal, from Institute of Physics[28]
  • 2023 honorary doctorate from the University of Salamanca, Spain[29]

Publications

References

  1. ↑ "Murnane, Margaret M.". National Academy of Sciences. https://www.nasonline.org/directory-entry/margaret-m-murnane-lsbbbu. Retrieved 17 February 2026. 
  2. ↑ "1990 Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award Recipient". American Physical Society. https://www.aps.org/funding-recognition/winners?q=murnane&af=false. Retrieved 17 February 2026. 
  3. ↑ "1997 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award Recipient". American Physical Society. https://www.aps.org/funding-recognition/winners?q=murnane&af=false. Retrieved 17 February 2026. 
  4. ↑ "1997 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award Recipient". American Physical Society. https://www.aps.org/funding-recognition/winners?q=murnane&af=false. 
  5. ↑ Fiez, Terry (18 March 2021). "Margaret Murnane". American Institute of Physics. https://www.colorado.edu/researchinnovation/2021/03/18/buff-innovator-insights-podcast-dr-margaret-murnane-jila-physics-strobe. "Interview with Margaret Murnane (professor of physics at University of Colorado Boulder, JILA fellow, NSF STROBE director." 
  6. ↑ Davis, T. H. (2006). "Profile of Margaret M. Murnane". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 (36): 13276–13278. 
  7. ↑ "Margaret Murnane Google Scholar profile". University of Colorado at Boulder. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fbL5uSAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao. Retrieved 1 October 2018. 
  8. ↑ "About the Kapteyn-Murnane Group". University of Colorado Boulder & NIST. https://jila.colorado.edu/kmgroup. "Describes joint research in ultrafast coherent EUV and X-ray beams, quantum materials, etc." 
  9. ↑ "Laser pioneer Margaret Murnane bags 2022 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize". 25 October 2022. https://physicsworld.com/a/laser-pioneer-margaret-murnane-bags-2022-isaac-newton-medal-and-prize. "Murnane and colleagues created a titanium-doped sapphire laser generating pulses lasting less than 10 femtoseconds." 
  10. ↑ Chang, Z.; Rundquist, A.; Wang, H.; Christov, I.; Kapteyn, H. C.; Murnane, M. M. (1998). "Temporal phase control of soft-x-ray harmonic emission". Physical Review A 58 (1): R30–R33. https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.58.R30. 
  11. ↑ Bartels, R. et al. (2000). "Shaped-pulse optimization of coherent emission of high-harmonic soft X-rays". Nature 406 (6792): 164–166. 
  12. ↑ "Founders and Leadership Team". KMLABS. https://www.kmlabs.com/founders-leadership-team. 
  13. ↑ "Intel backs KMLabs' ultrafast laser development". http://optics.org/news/6/11/8. 
  14. ↑ "Margaret M. Murnane". Optica. https://www.optica.org/history/biographies/bios/margaret_m_murnane. "Fellow - 1998" 
  15. ↑ "Margaret Murnane". MacArthur Foundation. https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2000/margaret-murnane. 
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 "Murnane". JILA, University of Colorado Boulder. https://jila.colorado.edu/kmgroup/people/murnane. 
  17. ↑ "Margaret Mary Murnane". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. https://www.amacad.org/person/margaret-mary-murnane. "Elected 2006. Specialty: Physics. Professor of Physics; Fellow, JILA." 
  18. ↑ "CU Professor Margaret Murnane Honored By National Women's Science Organization". University of Colorado at Boulder. http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2007/103.html. 
  19. ↑ Talbott, Clint (February 12, 2010). "Ultra-fast laser research wins top prize" (in en). https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine-archive/node/404. 
  20. ↑ "R. W. Wood Prize". https://www.optica.org/en-us/awards_and_grants/awards/award_description/rwwood/. 
  21. ↑ Boyle Medal Laureates Royal Dublin Society
  22. ↑ "The 2012 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics: Margaret M. Murnane". The Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics. https://www.lambaward.org/2012/2012-murnane.html. 
  23. ↑ "Registrar : Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Ireland". https://www.tcd.ie/registrar/honorary-degrees/2014-15/. 
  24. ↑ "Murnane elected to American Philosophical Society". 28 May 2015. https://connections.cu.edu/people/murnane-elected-american-philosophical-society. 
  25. ↑ "Three new honorary doctorates in Science and Technology – Uppsala University, Sweden". http://www.uu.se/en/research/grants-awards/article/?id=5398&area=2,5,12,16&typ=artikel&lang=en. 
  26. ↑ "Professor Margaret Murnane Wins Highest Medal from The Optical Society" (in en). Physics. 2017-02-20. https://www.colorado.edu/physics/2017/02/20/professor-margaret-murnane-wins-highest-medal-optical-society. 
  27. ↑ "Margaret M. Murnane". 25 January 2020. https://www.fi.edu/laureates/margaret-murnane. 
  28. ↑ Banks, Michael (25 October 2022). "Laser pioneer Margaret Murnane bags 2022 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize". Physics world. IOP. https://physicsworld.com/laser-pioneer-margaret-murnane-bags-2022-isaac-newton-medal-and-prize/. 
  29. ↑ "Margaret Murnane and Antonio Colinas new Doctors Honoris Causa from USAL" (in en-GB). June 22, 2023. https://laser.usal.es/alf/en/2023/06/22/margaret-murnane-and-antonio-colinas-new-doctors-honoris-causa-from-usal/. 


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