Klaus Schulten, professor of physics and Beckman Institute faculty member for nearly 25 years, passed away after an illness in late October, 2016. In this tribute video, Schulten discusses the creation of his computational microscope, the beauty he finds in the microscopic world, and his love of exploring how nature works.
Schulten, who led Beckman's Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group, was a leader in the field of biophysics, conducting seminal work in the area of dynamic computer simulations, illuminating biological processes and structures in ways that weren’t possible before.
Schulten's goal from his start as an original Beckman researcher was to use mathematics and physics to study the natural world through advanced computation.
Schulten's group has created simulations that have provided never-before-seen views of such function as the chemical structure of the HIV capsid and the first-ever simulation of an entire life form, the complete satellite tobacco mosaic virus.
To learn more about Schulten and his work, please visit:
www.ks.uiuc.edu/
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