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Paul Champion All Experts

Physics Chair and Experimental Biological Physics Professor

Expertise
  • photoactive molecules
  • studies of heme containing proteins
  • the techniques of "femtosecond stimulated raman scattering" (FSRS) and ”vibrational coherence spectroscopy” (VCS)
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champ@neu.edu
617.373.5705

Paul Champion for Northeastern

  • Aug. 22, 2016 - BOSTON, MA. - Paul Champion, professor and chair, Department of Physics, poses for a portrait in the Egan Research building at Northeastern University on August 22, 2016.  Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

    Research sheds new light on proton behavior, draws praise from science community


    A discovery by a research team led by Northeastern’s Paul Champion upends the understanding held for centuries of protons’ behavior. The researchers—using an ultrafast pulsed laser system designed at Northeastern—have revealed that protons actually tunnel through thermodynamic barriers rather than travel over them. Science magazine, struck by the results, highlighted the research in its “Editor’s Choice” column.

    • by Thea Singer   August 24, 2016

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