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1 SENATE RESOLUTION

2 WHEREAS, The members of the Senate are saddened to 3 learn of the death of Klaus Schulten, who passed away on 4 October 31, 2016; and

5 WHEREAS, Klaus Schulten was born on January 12, 1947 in 6 Recklinghausen, ; and

7 WHEREAS, Klaus Schulten earned a degree in from the 8 University of Muenster in 1969 and obtained his Ph.D. in 9 chemical physics from Harvard University in 1974; he served as 10 a physics professor at the Technical University of Munich 11 before joining the University of Illinois Department of Physics 12 as a faculty member in 1988; and

13 WHEREAS, Klaus Schulten led a team of more than 30 students 14 and postdoctoral scientists in the Theoretical and 15 Computational Group, which he founded at the Beckman 16 Institute for Advanced Science and Technology in 1989; with a 17 background in chemical physics and a keen understanding of the 18 potential of powerful computers to model biological structures 19 and the physics and chemistry that drives them, he led the 20 development of software that enables scientists around the 21 world to observe how molecules behave and interact at the 22 atomic scale, including the program VMD for the interactive SR2432 -2- LRB099 23888 GRL 51417 r

1 display, animation, and analysis of large biomolecules, and the 2 large-scale simulation program NAMD, which 3 accounts for the moment-by-moment chemical interactions of as 4 many as 100 million atoms, with time steps on the order of a 5 millionth of a billionth of a second; he also built a 6 computational microscope that captures the mechanisms of 7 biomolecules in action; and

8 WHEREAS, Klaus Schulten built his own parallel computer 9 before they were available commercially and was among the first 10 scientists to use the at the National 11 Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of 12 Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and

13 WHEREAS, Klaus Schulten and his group were responsible for 14 fundamental contributions to numerous areas of biology, most 15 recently to understanding , force generation in 16 cells, membrane channel dynamics, and large-scale cellular 17 organization; he and his colleagues revealed the precise 18 chemical structure of the HIV capsid, teased out new details of 19 the dynamic assembly of the ribosome, and contributed to a 20 deeper understanding of the chemistry of odor detection; he 21 also studied the magnetic field effect on migratory birds; and

22 WHEREAS, Klaus Schulten was a Swanlund Professor of 23 Physics; he served as director for the NIH Center for SR2432 -3- LRB099 23888 GRL 51417 r

1 Macromolecular Modeling at the Beckman Institute and was 2 co-director of the NSF Center for the Physics of Living Cells; 3 he was also affiliated with the Department of Chemistry and the 4 Center for Biophysics and ; he trained 5 over 77 graduate students in physics, biophysics, and chemistry 6 while at the University of Illinois; and

7 WHEREAS, Klaus Schulten is survived by his wife, Zan 8 Luthey-Schulten; his daughter, Charlotte Schulten (Dr. S. Case 9 Bradford); his brother, Christoph Schulten; and his sister, 10 Karin Balmer; therefore, be it

11 RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL 12 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we, along with his 13 family and friends, mourn the passing of Klaus Schulten; and be 14 it further

15 RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be 16 presented to the family of Klaus Schulten as an expression of 17 our sympathy.