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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 the area now known as experimental "Attosecond
Science," having performed foundational experiments that for the first time clearly demonstrated the ability to manipulate electron dynamics with attosecond precision.
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Prof. Murnane was the first to explore the use of femtosecond lasers for x-ray generation, and has made substantive pioneering contributions to many aspects of this area of research, including the science and fundamental understanding of the high harmonic process, the laser technology required to use
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Murnane has co-authored more than 500 articles in peer reviewed journals, with her work receiving around 35000 citations. Dr. Murnane is a founder of the field of ultrafast X-ray science, having made transformational contributions to this area of research in every decade since the 1980s. She is also
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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
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She is also the co-founder of the laser company KMLabs, Inc., for which Intel
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currently one of the most-accomplished woman laboratory experimental physicists in the U.S., further distinguished by having independently developed her university-based laboratory effort with Prof. Kapteyn.
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285:Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute)
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