First name

John C. H.

Last name

Spence

Academic unit

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Status

Deceased

Type of professor

Regents Professor

Year

1995

Bio summary

Spence's career spanned more than 40 years at ASU, where early on he was a key contributor to ASU's world-renowned program in electron microscopy and, more recently, was the director of science for the NSF BioXFEL Science and Technology Center on the application of X-ray free-electron lasers to structural biology.