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卡尔·弗尔克斯1906—1997
Karl August Folkers
American biochemist (1906–1997)
Karl August Folkers was an American biochemist who made major contributions to the isolation and identification of bioactive natural products.
摘自英文维基百科「Karl August Folkers」（英文维基百科，暂无中文条目），CC BY-SA 4.0
- 出生
- 1906 年 9 月 1 日，迪凯特
- 逝世
- 1997 年 12 月 7 日，新伦敦
- 国籍
- 美国
- 学科
- 化学、生物学
- 职业
- 生物化学家、化学家
- 母语 / 工作语言
- 英语
研究领域
所获奖项（6）
- 1941美国化学学会纯化学奖
- 1960珀金奖章
- 1967威廉·H·尼克尔斯奖
- 1972韦尔奇化学奖
- 1986普里斯特利奖章
- 1990美国国家科学奖章
学会与院士
百科正文
本条目暂无中文维基百科条目，下面是英文维基百科原文。
Career
Folkers graduated from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois in 1928. In 1986, the institution awarded him its Alumni Achievement Award.
His career was mainly spent at Merck. He played a prominent role in the isolation of vitamin B12 in 1947, which is one of the most structural complex of the vitamins. As a Merck Pharmaceuticals research team, Folkers, Fern P. Rathe, and Edward Anthony Kaczka were the first to isolate the antibiotic cathomycin in 1955. His team also isolated the antibiotic cycloserine. In 1958 his Merck team determined the structure of coenzyme Q10.
He later served as director of the Institute of Biomedical Research at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was also Ashbel Smith Professor of Chemistry.
In recognition for his scientific contributions, he received the Perkin Medal in 1960, the William H. Nichols Medal in 1967, the Priestley Medal in 1986, and the National Medal of Science in 1990.
Legacy
The plant species Erythrina folkersii is named after Folkers.
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