Karl August Folkers

Karl August Folkers ( born September 1, 1906 in Decatur, Illinois, † December 7, 1997 in New London, New Hampshire) was an American biochemist who worked for the pharmaceutical company Merck and especially through his contribution to the isolation of the vitamin B12 was known in 1948.

Karl August Folkers was the son of August William Folkers and Laura Susan Folkers, nee Black, to the world. He studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign at Carl Marvel and received his bachelor's degree in 1928. He was in 1931 a PhD from the University of Wisconsin in Homer Burton Adkins. From 1931 to 1934 he worked at Yale University in Treat B. Johnson. He was then set at Merck.

Folkers research at alkaloids, antibiotics, B- vitamins, hormones ( thyrotropin releasing hormone ) and coenzymes (coenzyme Q10) and has published over 700 publications. In 1960 he received the Perkin Medal. From 1963 to 1968 he was director of the Stanford Research Institute. In 1968 he became a professor at the University of Texas.

Karl married in 1932 Selma Leone Johnson. From this marriage sprang Cynthia Carol, who married the Yale professor James D. Jamieson, and Richard Karl Folkers.

Awards

  • Mead Johnson and Company awards for research on the vitamins of the B -complex
  • American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry
  • Perkin Medal of the Society of Chemical Industry (1960 )
  • William H. Nichols Medal from the New York Section of the American Chemical Society
  • The Spenser Award of the Kansas City Section of the American Cancer Society
  • Van Meter Prize of the American Thyroid Association
  • Priestley Medal of the Board of Directors of the American Chemical Society
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1948 )
  • President of the American Chemical Society (1962).
  • Honorary title of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, Uppsala University, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Illinois and the University of Bologna.
  • Presidential Certificate of Merit from Harry S. Truman (1950 )
  • The President's National Medal of Science from George Bush ( 1990)
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