Otto Folin | |
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![]() Otto Folin in biochemistry lab at McLean Hospital, 1905; photo by A.H. Folsom (Harvard) | |
Born | |
Died | October 23, 1934 | (aged 67)
Alma mater | University of Minnesota University of Chicago |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Biochemist |
Doctoral advisor | Julius Stieglitz[1] |
Doctoral students | Edward Adelbert Doisy George H. Hitchings James Batcheller Sumner |
Otto Knut Olof Folin (April 4, 1867 – October 25, 1934) was a Swedish-born American chemist who is best known for his groundbreaking work at Harvard University on practical micromethods for the determination of the constituents of protein-free blood filtrates and the discovery of creatine phosphate in muscles. [2]