| LC control no. | n 81107950 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Folkers, Karl, 1906-1997 |
| Variant(s) | Folkers, K., 1906-1997 Folkers, Karl August Folkers, Karl August, 1906-1997 |
| Other standard no. | http://dbpedia.org/resource/Karl_August_Folkers Q268874 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q268874 23283977 http://viaf.org/viaf/23283977 79432 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/79432 131874675 http://d-nb.info/gnd/131874675 081554281 https://www.idref.fr/081554281 http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w6sb4j5s |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Rahway (N.J.) Stanford (Calif.) New London (N.H.) |
| Birth date | 1906-09-01 |
| Death date | 1997-12-07 |
| Place of birth | Decatur (Ill.) |
| Place of death | New London (N.H.) |
| Field of activity | Biochemistry |
| Affiliation | Merck & Co. Stanford Research Institute University of Texas at Austin |
| Profession or occupation | Biochemists University and college faculty members |
| Found in | International Symposium on Coenzyme Q. Biomedical and clinical aspects of coenzyme Q, 1980- : v. 3, t.p. (K. Folkers) LCCN 63-22568: Wagner, A.F. Vitamins and coenzymes, 1964 (hdg.: Folkers, Karl August; usage: Karl Folkers) Argus-Champion, Dec. 17, 1997 p. 8 (Dr. Karl A. Folkers, d. Dec. 9, 1997; b. Sept. 1, 1906) OCLC, April 25, 2017 (access points: Folkers, K.; Folkers, K. (Karl); Folkers, K. (Karl August); Folkers, Karl; Folkers, Karl A.; Folkers, Karl August; Folkers, Karl August, 1906- ; Folkers, Karl August, 1906-1997; usage: K. Folkers; Karl Folkers; Dr. Karl Folkers; Dr. Karl A. Folkers; Karl August Folkers) Journal of nutrition, September 1, 2001, viewed online April 25, 2017: pages 2227-2229 (Karl August Folkers (1906-1997); one of the most imaginative and productive organic chemists who worked in the field of biological chemistry during the past century; most of his major contributions were made during the period in which he was associated with the Merck Company in Rahway, New Jersey beginning in 1934; born in Decatur, Illinois on September 1, 1906; in 1963, Folkers resigned his position as Vice-President for Explorative Research to which he had been promoted in 1962 to accept a position as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) with a courtesy appointment as Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University; in 1968, he resigned from his appointments at the SRI to accept a position at the University of Texas as Professor of Chemistry and Director of a newly created Institute for Biomedical Research; died in New London, NH on December 7, 1997; buried in New London) <http://jn.nutrition.org/content/131/9/2227.full> Wikipedia, April 25, 2017 (Karl August Folkers (September 1, 1906-December 7, 1997) was an American biochemist who made major contributions to the isolation and identification of bioactive natural products; career was mainly spent at Merck) |
| Associated language | eng |
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