Folke K. Skoog, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Swedish botanist
Date of Birth: 15-Jul-1908
Place of Birth: Halland, Halland County, Sweden
Date of Death: 15-Feb-2001
Profession: physiologist, botanist, athletics competitor
Nationality: United States, Sweden
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Folke K. Skoog
- Folke Karl Skoog (July 15, 1908 – February 15, 2001) was a Swedish-born American plant physiologist who was a pioneer in the field of plant growth regulators, particularly cytokinins.
- Skoog was a recipient of the National Medal of Science 1991.Born in Halland, Sweden, Skoog emigrated to the United States during a trip to California in 1925, and was naturalized as a citizen almost a decade later.
- He competed, and finished sixth in heat 2, in the 1500 meter race during the 1932 Summer Olympics.
- In 1936, he received his PhD in biology from Caltech for his work done with auxin, a plant hormone. Skoog's professional career advanced significantly with his arrival at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1947.
- Carlos Miller discovered kinetin in 1954, and benzyladenine and related compounds were later synthesized in Skoog's lab. In 1962, Skoog and Toshio Murashige published what is probably the best-known paper in plant tissue culture; in a fruitless attempt to discover a yet-unknown plant growth regulator in tobacco juice for his doctoral thesis, Murashige and Skoog instead developed a greatly improved salt base for the sterile culture of tobacco.
- Now referred to as Murashige and Skoog medium, the final paper (Murashige, T.
- and Skoog, F.
- (1962) A revised medium for rapid growth and bioassays with tobacco tissue cultures.
- Physiol Plant 18: 100-127) is one of the most often-cited papers in biology.
- Now 50 years after the work, M&S salt base remains an essential component in plant tissue culture. In 1970, Skoog was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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