1. Otto Knut Olof Folin 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.
Otto Folin was the seventh of twelve children of Nils Magnus Folin and Eva Olson.
Otto Folin moved to America at the age of fifteen following two brothers and an aunt who had already settled there.
In 1896, Folin returned to Sweden and began his research in the laboratory of Prof.
Otto Folin joined the University of Chicago gaining his Ph.
Otto Folin moved to the McLean Hospital Boston in 1900 as a research biochemist, eventually moving to Harvard Medical School in 1907 as an associate professor of biological chemistry, becoming the Hamilton Kuhn Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology in 1909.
Together with Vintila Ciocalteu Otto Folin designed the Folin-Ciocalteu reagent to detect polyphenols.
Otto Folin was elected the president of the American Society of Biological Chemists in 1909.
Otto Folin was a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Otto Folin was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and was awarded the Carl Wilhelm Scheele Medal of the Swedish Chemical Society in 1930.