A quote from Skoog’s personal history of plant hormone research: “said, “Well, those biochemists..., I tell you, I wouldn’t go there. There’s a young Dutchman just come here to work, and he has a new thing, something that stimulates growth. I’ll talk to him, and you can work with him.” So I started to work with Dolk, which was the beginning of my work with plant hormones.”
Folke Skoog’s career in phytohormone research started in 1930 as undergrad at @caltech.edu, when he expressed his interest in #PlantBiochemistry to his mentor Carl Lindegren. Lindegren suggested Herman Dolk as supervisor for Skoog in what can best be described as a half-hearted endorsement (image).
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