Folke Skoog
Folke Karl Skoog (born July 15, 1908 in Halland , † February 15, 2001 in Madison ) was a Swedish-American plant physiologist .
Skoog stayed in the US after a trip to California in 1925 and received his PhD from Caltech in 1936 with a dissertation on auxins. At the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1932 , he started over 1500 m and missed the finals in sixth place in his heat. From 1947 he taught at the University of Wisconsin .
He discovered cytokinins , including kinetin and the artificial benzylaminopurine , which he first synthesized and studied , and developed techniques for growing whole plants from tissue cultures, introducing the Murashige-Skoog medium with his PhD student Toshio Murashige (their publication became one of the most cited biological works). He also carried out classic experiments on the effects of plant growth hormones ( auxins ).
He was a member of the Leopoldina (1967), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1970), the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1959). In 1991 he received the National Medal of Science .
Web links
- Peter Minorsky Tribute to Folke Skoog
- Donald Armstrong, Eldon Newcomb, Biogr. Memoirs NAS
- Member entry of Folke Skoog at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on 31 July 2017th
- Folke Skoog in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Skoog, Folke |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Skoog, Folke K .; Skoog, Folke Karl (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish-American plant physiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 15, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halland |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 15, 2001 |
| Place of death | Madison |