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Boulder Husband & Wife Awarded Prestigious Physics Award

BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4) - A pair of researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder won a prestigious award in the science world. Henry Kapteyn and Margaret Murnane, a husband and wife team, will receive the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics.

Husband Wife Lasers 1 (CREDIT Glenn Asakawa, CU Boulder)
Henry Kapteyn and Margaret Murnane (credit: Glenn Asakawa, CU Boulder)

The couple work in a joint research institute between CU Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. They are professors in the Department of Physics.

They created devices that better deliver X-ray radiation.

They are also the third couple to receive this award.

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