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Biography of Klaus Schulten
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laus Schulten was born on January 12, 1947, in the Swabia region of southwestern Germany. He was born the younger of two brothers. Klaus earned his diplom in physics from the University of Münster, Germany (1969), and afterward, he traveled to America to pursue his Ph.D. in chemical physics from Harvard University. There, he worked under advisor Martin Karplus. While in graduate school, amidst studying statistical and quantum mechanics at the Prince House, Klaus met Zaida (Zan) Luthey. After completing their Ph.D.’s in 1974, they married in 1975 and together moved to Germany, where Klaus completed his habilitation at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen. Their daughter, Charlotte, was born in 1979. Klaus became a professor of theoretical physics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in 1980. In 1987, Klaus returned to the United States to begin his professorship at the University of Illinois, Urbana−Champaign (UIUC). For over a quarter of a century, from 1990 until 2016, Klaus was Director of the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group, housed in the Beckman Institute at UIUC. Klaus succumbed to postsurgical complications on October 31, 2016.
Rommie E. Amaro Elizabeth Villa
University of California, San Diego
Zan Luthey-Schulten
University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign
Special Issue: Klaus Schulten Memorial Issue Published: April 20, 2017 © 2017 American Chemical Society
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DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b02141 J. Phys. Chem. B 2017, 121, 3206−3206
