John C. H. Spence

John C. H. Spence, Regent's Professor of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, US John C. H. Spence FRS Âis Snell Professor of ÂPhysics at Arizona State University, where he teaches condensed matter physics with research in biophysics. He is currently Director of Science for the National Science Foundation's eight-campus "BioXFEL" consortium. This is devoted to applications of the recently invented hard x-ray free-electron laser to structural biology, providing movies of molecular machines at work with femtosecond time resolution. John is the author of texts on electron microscopy, and a keen musician, pilot and sailor.