Philip Coppens (October 24, 1930 – June 21, 2017)[2] was a Dutch-born American chemist and crystallographer known for his work on charge density analysis using X-rays crystallography[3] and the pioneering work in the field of photocrystallography.

and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Amsterdam in 1954 and 1960, where he was supervised by Carolina MacGillavry.

In 1968, following appointments at the Weizmann Institute and Brookhaven National Laboratory, he was appointed in the chemistry department at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

He was a SUNY Distinguished Professor and holder of the Henry M. Woodburn Chair of Chemistry.

[7] Additionally, he was awarded the Gregori Aminoff Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1996, the Ewald Prize of the International Union of Crystallography in 2005,[8] and Kołos Medal in 2013.