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Asbjorn Folling
Asbjorn Folling (, No:Asbjørn Følling) was a Norwegian physician and biochemist who first described the disease named after him -- Folling's disease -- which is better known outside of Norway as phenylketonuria or, for short, PKU.
He was born in Kvam, Steinkjer.
Asbjorn folling biography
Life
Folling studied chemistry at the polytechnical university in Trondheim. He then went to the Kristiania University in Oslo, graduating in medicine in He received his medical doctorate (somewhat like a PhD in Medicine) in after doing postgraduate work in Norway and abroad (in Denmark, England, Vienna and the U.S.).
Starting in Folling occupied a series of medical posts in Oslo, culminating in his being Professor of Biochemistry and Physician-in-Chief at the central laboratory at the Rikshospitalet, which is the Norwegian national research hospital.
He retired in
Discovery
In at the Rikshospitalet Dr. Folling saw a young woman named Borgny Egeland. She had two children, Liv and Dag, who h