The article features biophysicist Richard Neutze from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Topics discussed include his team's use of the fast beam pulses produced by an X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) as well as proteins to capture events in the photosynthetic reaction center of the bacterium Blastochloris viridis, his family relationships and activities, and his comments on how structural changes in photosynthetic proteins shape the efficiency of photosynthesis.