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Klaus Schulten

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German-American biophysicist (1947–2016) at the University of Illinois who first proposed, in a 1978 paper, that quantum spin chemistry might underlie magnetic sensing in animals. The idea was ignored for two decades until cryptochromes were identified in bird retinas. Schulten lived to see his proposal vindicated and is now regarded as the founder of quantum biology as a serious discipline.

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